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Chapter Thirty-Six: Temptation in the Silence

Author: ThirtySomethingTita
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The soft hum of the salon, once a gentle lull, now felt like a cage, pressing in from all sides. Every scent, the faint lavender, the warm oils, the subtle soapiness of the towels was sharp, amplified, impossible to ignore. Every sound, the gentle trickle of water, the quiet shuffle of the technicians, was magnified in her ears, drowned out only by the thundering pulse of her own heartbeat.

Sarah tried to breathe. She really did.

But it was impossible.

Impossible because he was there. Liam Hamilton, twenty-five and devastating, sitting across from her like a storm contained in perfect, unreadable form. His gaze had found her again, and it was not casual, not distant. It was focused, piercing, intimate, the kind of look that made her body shiver and her mind spin at once.

She had taken leave to escape this, him, the push and pull, the unrelenting tension but it had been futile. He was everywhere she didn’t want him to be. In the quiet, in the warmth, in the stolen moments she had thoug
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