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Chapter 6
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2026-06-08 09:20:04
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We drove back from the office without saying much.It wasn’t uncomfortable.For once, neither of us felt the need to fill the silence. We had both been through enough for one day.I turned my attention to the view outside, but it didn’t help.My mind kept returning to the meeting.The more I thought about it, the more confused I became.Edris kept his attention on the road.He never mentioned the meeting.I didn’t bring it up either.I was too drained to have that conversation.The smell of dinner greeted us as soon as we stepped inside.Something rich and savory drifted in from the dining room. The table had already been set, candles flickered softly, and everything was ready before either of us had to ask.I pulled out a chair and sank into it.The day’s events had drained every bit of energy I had left, and sitting down felt like the first chance I’d had to breathe."Long day," Edris said, settling across from me and reaching for his glass."That's one word for it." I picked up my
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I sat there for a few more seconds, trying to gather myself.When that didn’t work, I got up, picked up my things, tried to act as though everything was fine, and headed for the door. If I was going to fall apart, it wasn’t going to happen in the middle of the office.I didn’t care where my feet took me.I only knew I couldn’t stay in one place. My thoughts were scattered, and no matter how hard I tried, they refused to come together.J.A million dollars transferred to someone known only as “J,” every single month, without fail.I turned a corner without looking at where I was going and pushed open the nearest door.The room went quiet instantly, the kind of silence that falls when something unexpected enters a space that had its own established rhythm, a long boardroom table. Eight, maybe ten faces were turning toward me with varying expressions of surprise. Edris at the head of it, mid-sentence, now not.I stood in the doorway and took in the situation."I'm so sorry," I said, beca
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The sunlight reached my room before I was ready to open my eyes. I lay still, watching the ceiling, trying to hold on to that brief stretch of peace between waking and remembering. It never lasted. One by one, the memories returned—the watch, the gala, the poison, the hospital, until they crowded out every other thought. They settled over me, heavy enough to make the day feel exhausting before it had even begun. I turned my head to check the time; it was already 6:43 AM. I could hear movement from downstairs. The particular sounds of someone who had decided the day had begun, whether the day agreed or not. I heard shoes on hardwood, the clink of keys, the low murmur of what I assumed was a phone call. I sat up. “Edris wouldn't,” I whispered to myself. I got out of bed immediately and went downstairs. I found him in the hallway, already dressed for the day. His jacket was on, his tie neatly in place, and there was nothing about him to suggest he’d walked out of a hospital less
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The doctor finally allowed Edris to leave the hospital on the third day. By then, the chair beside his bed had more or less become mine. I had spent the last three days sitting in it, surviving on far too many cups of bitter coffee and whatever stubbornness I still had left in me. Somehow, both had worked. The first day had been the worst. Edris hardly stayed awake for more than a few minutes at a time, drifting in and out while the medicine moved through his system. On the second day, he was awake long enough to complain about nearly everything in the room, which, strangely, made me feel better. And now, on the third morning, he was sitting upright against the pillows. The color had returned to his face, and that steady confidence he always carried around him had found its way back, too. It almost seemed as if his body had finally decided to catch up with the strength of his mind. For a man who had almost died from poison three days earlier, he looked irritatingly well.
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The hospital had a particular kind of silence that pressed down on you.It wasn't peaceful; it was just quiet in the way that rested you. It was the silence of held breath, of waiting rooms and low lighting, and the particular cruelty of clocks that moved too slowly. I had been sitting in it since last night, and by morning, it had soaked into my bones.I hadn't gone home to change. I was still in the burgundy gown, heels abandoned somewhere beneath the chair, my carefully constructed hair from last night now loosely pulled back with a clip one of the nurses had offered me with quiet sympathy. My makeup had survived better than I had. I sat with my knees together and my hands folded in my lap. I stared at the door to Edris's room as though staring hard enough might tell me something the doctors hadn't.“Stabilised” was the word they kept using.I had decided I hated that word; it told you nothing. It wasn’t really an answer. It was just a word people used when they wanted you to stop
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The old man's words were still bothering my mind until the waiter appeared at my elbow."Champagne, ma'am?"I reached for the glass without thinking, the automatic reflex of someone who needed something to do with her hands at a party where the ground kept shifting beneath her feet. The flute was cold and elegant, and I had very nearly lifted it to my lips when Edris's hand closed around my wrist gently but firmly.I looked at him."Not that one," he said.His voice was a bit low, but his eyes were doing something I hadn't seen before… a rapid, almost imperceptible scan of the room, there and gone in a second, like a man checking exits.I looked down at the glass, then back at him. "I beg your pardon?""Let me get you something else,” he said.I pulled my wrist back. "I'm fine with this one.""Juliana…""Edris." I matched his tone precisely. "It's champagne from a waiter at a gala. I think I'm capable of selecting my own drink without a committee vote."Something moved behind his eyes
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I didn’t move, I couldn’t. It felt like I’d been caught red-handed at a crime scene, unsure whether to run or stay where I was. Edris was standing in the doorway as he had always been there for a long time watching, and as if he already knew what I was up to. My fingers tightened around the pho
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I left Edris’s office pretending I was fine, but I wasn’t, not even close.His phone call and that slight change in his expression kept bothering my mind, that wasn’t normal.Nothing about Edris Veltri was normal.We were walking down the hallway when I slowed my steps.“Excuse me.”Edris stopped a
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I stood there, staring at the spot where Edris had been a few seconds ago.I was so confused, angry, and frustrated.What the hell was wrong with that man?I had literally stabbed him yesterday, yet somehow I was the one feeling unsettled.I glanced at the breakfast on the table.The eggs, the toas
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Edris wrapped his hand around the handle and pulled it out, then said to me,“Finished? If that was enough to make you feel better, then do it again.”Before I could try stabbing him again, something strong hit the back of my head, and I passed out on the floor.The next morning, I woke up expectin
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