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Leo’s Shadow

Author: Ishq
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-07-19 14:02:12

New York rain always seemed louder at night. Isla sat in her penthouse library, the city lights blinking against the windows like warnings she didn’t know how to read well.

A fire crackled in the corner of her place.

Lucian had left barely an hour ago, after another tense meetingto. She hadn't shouted at him this time. Infact there was only silence between them now. The kind od silence that carved space between them, yet tethered them to something neither of thsn could abandon at all.

Her phone buzzed. It was a message from her CFO and best friend, Elena.

“You might want to know what your golden investor is doing at this hour.” Elena had written.

There was a blurry photo attached.

It was Leo standing outside an unfamiliar townhouse. Talking to someone. The timestamp said it was 12:46 a.m.

And he wasn’t alone.

There was a woman with him. Brunette, tall and familiar.

Isla frowned, squinting at the grainy image for a moment.

Elena texted her again.

“She works at a cybersecurity firm Cl
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