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James stood transfixed. This was Sophia Moretti, researcher, survivor – passionate, capable, fiercely independent. Not the quiet, accommodating wife he’d relegated to the background of his violent, complicated world. This was the woman whose mind he’d never bothered to engage with, whose ambitions he’d dismissed, whose very essence he’d ignored. He’d never understood her. The realization hit him with the force of the avalanche that had brought him here. He’d married a convenient arrangement, a beautiful shadow. He was only now, as she walked definitively away from him and his world, truly seeing the brilliant, resilient woman he’d let slip through his fingers. The ache of that understanding was profound, a deeper wound than any physical injury.As Sophia disappeared into a large equipment tent, not sparing him a backward glance, the final piece of his old armor shattered. The defenses built on power, control, and emotional detachment crumbled into dust, swept away by the Alpine wind.
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The words James Moretti had rehearsed during the frantic helicopter ride, the desperate digging, the agonizing wait, dissolved like snowflakes on hot skin. Standing before Sophia in the chaotic aftermath of the avalanche, the only thing that emerged was a raw, ragged apology."Sophia," he began, his voice scraped thin by cold and exhaustion. "What you went through... I know. The pregnancy... I know.""Enough!"Sophia cut him off, her voice sharp as glacial ice. A brittle, mocking smile touched her lips. "Did you fly halfway across the world, Mr. Moretti, just to mock how stupid I used to be?" Her words, honed by months of solitary resolve and pain, sliced into him with surgical precision.He flinched, the accusation striking bone. "No! God, no. I... I know how much I hurt you. I was wrong. So wrong." His gaze, bloodshot from thirty hours without sleep, pleaded with her. "Sophia, please. Don't let this divorce be final. Come back."A heavy silence descended, broken only by the distant
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The avalanche had turned the pass into a graveyard of snow and twisted metal. James worked alongside the professionals, his hands blistering inside his gloves as he hacked at the ice. His world narrowed to the rhythm of the axe—lift, strike, dig—each motion a penance.Memories ambushed him between swings: Sophia’s laughter muffled by snowfall during their Vermont trip, the way she’d once traced equations onto his palm to explain her research, her silent tears in the hospital when he’d been with Vicky.A rescuer shouted at him in German, pointing to his bloodied gloves. James ignored him. The pain was nothing compared to the vise around his lungs, the terror that he’d buried her long before this mountain did.Dusk bled into night. James’ vision swam with exhaustion, his fingers numb beneath the bandages a medic had forced onto him. He barely registered the commotion nearby until a voice sliced through his delirium:"Sort casualties by severity—Redirect stage 3 hypothermia to Zone B!"So
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James Moretti's entire body locked up at the student's words."Lost the baby?" The words tasted like broken glass in his mouth.The blue-haired undergrad glared, her grip tightening on her textbooks. "Some bastard got her pregnant and vanished. Didn't even show up when she collapsed." Each syllable landed like a gunshot in the quiet quad.Sophia had been carrying his child.His mind flashed to the hospital - Sophia's pale face in the elevator, the crumpled paper in her fist. And him? Escorting Vicky to her prenatal appointment like a fucking gentleman."Where is she now?" The words scraped his throat raw.The student's lips thinned. "Gone. Left for Switzerland last week."Switzerland.The application forms he'd mocked. The snow he'd claimed she'd hate. Every dismissive comment now a knife twisting in his gut.Midnight found James in his penthouse office, shredding through red tape with a series of violent phone calls. By 3 AM, he had the institute director on a private jet headed to hi
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James Moretti's fingers trembled as they traced the embossed seal on the divorce papers.Vicky's hand landed on his shoulder. "James, it's just some college girl's tantrum. She'll come crawling—" "I have a wife." the words tore from his throat like gunfire. He shoved her away, the movement sending a crystal vase shattering to the floor. Glass shards skittered across marble like the broken pieces of his marriage. The air slapped his face as he burst outside. His Mercedes roared to life, the steering wheel vibrating under his white-knuckled grip. The university gates loomed before him. James stalked past clusters of laughing students, their backpacks heavy with textbooks and futures. He realized with a sickening lurch that he didn't know which room was Sophia's lab. Didn't know her advisor's name. Had never once asked about her research. "Biology lab?" The security guard eyed his rumpled suit with disdain. "All grad students cleared out last week." A beat. "Family would've known
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The Mercedes swerved violently as James barely avoided colliding with a motorcycle. The rider's furious shout pierced through the closed windows, but James didn't even flinch. His knuckles whitened on the steering wheel, the leather creaking under his grip. "James!" Vicky's manicured hand flew to her chest, her diamond bracelet clinking against the dashboard. "What's wrong with you these days? You forgot about our movie plans, and now you're trying to kill us both?" He didn't look at her. "I'm tired. Ask your girlfriends to go with you." The words came out flat, automatic. His mind was elsewhere—specifically, on the last text Sophia had sent him nearly a month ago. A simple "Lab running late, don't wait up." Nothing since. No calls. No messages.Vicky huffed, reapplying her lipstick in the vanity mirror. "You've been like this since Sophia left for her precious lab. Honestly, she's probably just sulking because you've been spending time with me." James' jaw tightened. That didn
