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Chapter 26

作者: MAYREE
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ALESSANDRE

I didn’t go straight to my penthouse room. After the press conference, the tension between Ophelia and me was so palpable it could snap. I needed some breathing room—somewhere that didn’t smell of her perfume, without Charlotte hovering over me like a hawk, and away from the hundred unanswered questions weighing on my chest.

So, I went to my apartment on the other side of the city—the one I had kept even after moving into the "engagement" penthouse. I didn’t spend nights there much anymore, but it was still mine. A place where the walls didn’t listen, and the ceilings didn’t judge.

Matteo was already there.

“Do you want to explain what the hell that was?” His voice was the first thing I heard when I walked in. He was propped against the kitchen counter like he had been waiting for hours.

I set my keys down on the table. “Define ‘that.’”

“Don’t get me started.” He waved his phone in my direction, the screen glowing with a frozen video frame—Ophelia and me at the press confe
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