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Chapter 55: Ethan's Question
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The office was silent, save for the steady, rhythmic thrum of the city fifty floors below. It was a sound Aurora had once found terrifying, a mechanical monster waiting to devour her. Now, it was just noise.Inside the room, however, the silence was a living thing. It was heavy with the weight of five years, of secrets kept and lies told, of a love that had been burned to ash and was now, impossibly, trying to spark again.Liam Cross stood by his desk, his hand resting on the phone he had just used to buy a bank.He looked at her.His eyes were gray. Not the cold, slate gray of the CEO who had crushed her supply chain. They were the gray of a storm that had finally broken, leaving the air clear and sharp. They were raw. They were open."The records are sealed," he repeated, his voice low. "You are safe."Aurora stared at him. She was still holding the ring, her fingers curled around the cold, hard diamond. It dug into her palm, a physical anchor in a room that felt like it was spinnin
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The invitation was not printed on heavy cream cardstock. It did not come with a wax seal or a courier.It was a single, digital line, blinking on Aurora's phone screen.From: Liam Cross To: Aurora Vale Subject: CollaborationMy office. Tomorrow. 10 AM. Alone.Aurora stared at the message. It was 9 PM. Ethan was asleep, safe in the "fortress" of Liam's guest suite, surrounded by guards he thought were "knights."She was sitting in the living room of the suite, a glass of water in her hand, her knees drawn up to her chest.Collaboration.It was a code. A lie. A trap.He wasn't asking for a meeting about fabric or distribution. He was asking for a confession.She had been living under his roof for forty-eight hours. Forty-eight hours of polite, agonizing distance. He had kept his promise. He had protected them. He had hunted down the leak—Sophia's "fixer"—and he had silenced Vanessa.But he hadn't come to see her.He had sat in the hallway outside her door at night—she had seen the sha
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The Cross Empire tower was quiet, a silence that felt less like peace and more like the held breath of a storm.Liam sat in his office, the lights dimmed, a single glass of amber liquid untouched on the desk beside him. The "Anonymous Tip" from the last chapter—the text about Sophia, the betrayal, the footage—had sent Aurora running into his arms.It had been a victory. A tactical win.But it hadn't solved the puzzle. It had only deepened the haunting.She’s running to me because she has nowhere else to go, he thought, staring out at the rain-streaked skyline. Not because she forgives me.He turned away from the window. He walked to the safe hidden behind a panel in the mahogany wall. He punched in the code.Inside, there was a small, velvet box. Not the one with the thimble.This one held a ring.The engagement ring he had given her. The one she had left on the vanity table in the bridal suite, next to the pearls he had given her father.He took it out. The diamond was cold, heavy, a
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