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Chapter 88

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ELLE

Seven months later.

If someone had told me that peace could feel this heavy, I wouldn’t have believed them.

Paris, for all its beauty, had a way of reminding me that peace wasn’t always freedom—sometimes it was just the absence of noise.

We had left the penthouse months ago, trading glass walls and city lights for a single-story bungalow at the edge of the 14th arrondissement. It was small, simple, tucked behind ivy and iron gates that creaked when you opened them. The street outside was quiet, lined with trees that whispered when the wind blew, and most days, the loudest sound came from church bells drifting in from somewhere far away.

It wasn’t home. But it wasn’t terrible either.

At first, I hated it, the silence, the distance, the way everything seemed so still. But eventually, the stillness began to feel safe. I could breathe here. Walk outside without looking over my shoulder. Pretend, even if just for a moment, that the world wasn’t watching.

Raymond said it was bet
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