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Chapter 96 – The Weight of New Beginnings

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The sunlight poured through the penthouse in the morning like a blessing, warming up chilly marble floors and softly golden playing on Elena's face where she sat bundled up in the corner of the couch. The small leather book lay open on her knees, white fingers tracing along the page as if she was afraid to lean on it too hard lest the words vanish.

Killian's words—so real, so agonizingly unforeseen—had jolted something inside her. Not much. But in a way that caused her throat to constrict with a hope she was still not ready to willingly accept.

He'd never talked to her like this before.

No gestures. No sweeping pronouncements or silks-shorn falsehoods. But only gossamer confessions etched on pages for no one's eyes but his. And that made them true. And more powerful than anything he'd ever spoken aloud.

She closed the diary, clutched it in a hard-held moment before she rose and went quietly toward the kitchen where the smell of strong coffee hung in the air.

Killian braced himself on t
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