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Chapter 37

Author: Uyai Jimmy
last update Last Updated: 2025-08-25 22:24:19

The night was merciless.

Damian lay sprawled on the bed, staring at the ceiling as though the plastered whiteness could yield answers. It didn’t. The silence of the room felt louder than the distant hum of the city. The muted glow from the skyscrapers outside their window fell in shifting streaks across the floor, but it was cold comfort.

Sleep eluded him.

Every time he closed his eyes, the picture flashed again in his mind: Lydia, his Lydia, caught in Ava’s arms. Not in a way that could be mistaken for friendship, not in a casual gesture of closeness, but in a manner that spoke of intimacy, of secrets carved into the flesh.

He shifted restlessly, his chest rising and falling with uneven breaths. What haunted him was not only the picture, but Lydia’s reaction earlier that night. She had not flinched. She had not cried or apologized or begged for forgiveness. No, she had looked at him with those calm, unbreakable eyes and said the words that now sliced through him: “I won’t insult your
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