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Chapter 34 – Lena Moves to Roman’s Guesthouse
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2025-08-30 05:06:48LENA
I didn’t want to admit it, but Mom’s suspicions were starting to suffocate me. Every time she looked at me, I could see questions behind her eyes, ones she was too polite—or maybe too afraid—to ask. I was tired of skirting around the truth, tired of the tension that hung in the air like a storm about to break.
And Roman knew it.
That evening, after Mom left the hospital to run some errands, he appeared at my bedside with that same infuriating calm, dressed in his dark shirt with the sleeves rolled just enough to reveal the veins in his forearms. He looked like he had stepped straight out of a dream—or a warning.
“You can’t stay here much longer,” he said simply, as if reading my thoughts. “The hospital’s just a temporary excuse. Your mother will hover, and the longer you’re under her roof, the more questions she’ll dig up.”
My heart lurched. “So what are you su
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