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Shadows In The Mansion

Author: Bless Faru
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I had never realized how loud silence could be until I lived in Alexander’s mansion.

The walls were too pristine, the chandeliers too polished, the marble too cold. Even the staff moved like shadows—polite, efficient, and distant—leaving only the echo of my thoughts to fill the emptiness.

And lately, those thoughts had been consumed by him.

Alexander.

The man who was my husband, but not really my husband. My protector, but also my jailer. The man whose presence ignited a fire in me, and whose absence left me drowning in frost.

We had been circling each other for weeks—teetering on the edge of something that wasn’t quite love, wasn’t quite war. A slow burn, dangerous and intoxicating. One moment he’d look at me with eyes that softened the iron mask he always wore, and the next he’d pull away as though I carried poison.

And Isabella had noticed.

I should have expected it. Alexander’s younger sister had always watched me like a hawk, her disdain sharpened into something more lethal than
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