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CHAPTER 9
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2026-07-19 06:11:00Vivienne POV
The silence that followed the sound of tearing paper was loud. It filled the massive boardroom, heavy and suffocating.
Ethan stared at the two neat halves of the contract lying on the polished wood. His hands stayed hovered in the air, his fingers twitching slightly as if he wanted to reach out and try to piece the fibers back together. He looked completely frozen. For two years, I had seen him angry, annoyed, and indifferent, but I had never seen him look utterly p
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