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Georgina Sinclair's POV:

After leaving my room, the first thing I do is double lock the door. I twist the handle twice then check it again just to be sure. After that, I stalk to the windows and snap them shut one by one before drawing the thick curtains together with a sharp tug. No one is going to see what is happening inside. No one is going to hear whatever I say.

I want the walls inside my room to close in like a vault. I want to feel it like my own skin hugging tight to my body after too many years of pretending I wasn't suffocating in this marriage. So when the last curtain falls and the lock clicks one final time, I let out a slow and bitter exhale.

Danica.

Her scent still lingers faintly inside the room and clinging to the air like mildew. I can still smell the sugary-sweet perfume she always wears that's supposed to make her seem gentle and maternal. But for me, it is just making my stomach churn.

Soon, my eyes flick to the vanity. The one drawer that she was opening. Of al
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