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Chapter 55

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SELENE

I’d been on my feet since morning.

No, that wasn’t even true. I’d been on my feet since before morning. Before the sun came up. Before the house felt awake. I moved through the mansion like it was a checklist, not a home, my mind ticking through details faster than my body wanted to keep up.

Lights first.

I walked the main hall twice, stopping under each fixture, adjusting brightness, asking for warmer tones near the seating areas and cooler ones near the entrance. Too harsh made people stiff. Too dim made them whisper. I wanted balance. I wanted people relaxed without realizing why.

“Lower that one just a little,” I told a staff member, pointing up. “It’s too direct.”

He nodded immediately and adjusted it without question.

That alone surprised me.

No pause. No look toward Mireille. No waiting for permission.

I moved on.

Drinks next.

I stood by the long table where glasses were already lined up, clear and polished, reflecting the lights I’d just set. I shifted them myself, spac
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    **********Mireille was in the sitting room when Adrien finally found her.She wasn’t doing anything dramatic. No plotting posture. No phone pressed tight to her ear. She sat on one of the cream sofas with a folder open on her lap, reading glasses low on her nose, legs crossed neatly. The room smelled faintly of polish and flowers, the kind of careful calm that always lived around her.She looked up the moment he stepped in.“Adrien,” she said, smiling. “There you are.”She closed the folder and set it aside, already rising to her feet. Her smile was easy, practiced, warm in a way that made people forget how sharp she could be.“I was beginning to think you’d vanished again,” she added. “You’ve been hard to catch these past few days.”“Work,” Adrien said.She reached him and did what she always did first. Straightened his jacket. Smoothed his collar. Her fingers lingered for a second longer than needed.“You look thin,” she said. “Are you eating properly?”“Yes.”“And sleeping?”“Enou

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