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Chapter 137 – The Truth in the Shadows

Author: Billie Patsy
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-11-12 13:13:29

LENA

When Roman finally returned from that back hallway of the Westbrook Hotel, his face was a shade I’d never seen before—somewhere between fury and exhaustion. The kind that told me he was fighting wars I couldn’t yet see.

He didn’t say a word at first. Just took the folder from my hands, flipped through the pages with a controlled, almost cold precision, and then closed it again with a sigh that sounded like defeat.

“Let’s go,” he said.

His voice was tight. Commanding.

But I didn’t move. “Not until you tell me what’s going on.”

“Lena, not here,” he muttered. “I mean it.”

“Roman,” I snapped, surprising even myself with how sharp my tone came out. “You can’t keep saying that. You can’t keep walking away and expecting me to follow you like I don’t deserve to know what’s happening.”

He stopped mid-step, jaw clenched. The silence between us stretched—tense and suffocating—until he turned back to face me.

People in the lobby glanced our way, sensing the tension. Roman noticed, too, and m
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