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Chapter Forty-nine: Consequences

Author: Hallie Hart
last update Last Updated: 2025-07-01 17:56:38

Amelia’s POV

I could feel the shift before I saw him.

The air in Dominic’s penthouse felt heavier, charged with something thick and unspoken. And it wasn’t from the night before, no matter how much my body still ached from the memory of his hands on me, his mouth claiming every inch of my skin.

This was different.

This was the fallout.

I lingered in the doorway of the living room, watching him. He was at the window, phone in one hand, tension radiating from his frame like heat waves off asphalt in summer. His shoulders were tight, suit jacket discarded somewhere hours ago, the sleeves of his white shirt pushed up to his elbows, veins in his forearms prominent as he gripped the phone so hard I worried it might crack.

I knew that stance.

I’d seen it before in boardrooms.

In interviews.

In the few rare glimpses of him on the news.

It was Dominic Blackwood in damage control mode.

And I had a sinking feeling I knew exactly why.

I cleared my throat quietly, not wanting to startle him. Hi
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