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Chapter 65 – The Other Woman

Penulis: Ij Gabriel
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Amelia’s POV

I couldn’t sleep.

Ethan had held me close after the gala, his arms warm and steady around me, but the moment his breathing shifted—slightly heavier, no longer synced with mine—I opened my eyes.

Something was off.

It was in the way he kept checking his phone even when he thought I wasn’t looking. The way his grip had been tender, but distracted. His kiss deep, but not all the way there. Not the way it usually was. Not the way it had been earlier, when I’d spoken Italian and watched his whole world tilt in my direction.

I told myself I was being paranoid. I told myself this wasn’t one of those stories—where the rich man got distracted, and the woman in his bed stopped being enough.

But sometimes the gut just knows.

And mine was twisting like a storm was coming.

I lay there for a while, watching his face in the soft light spilling from the hallway. Then, around 3 AM, I felt him shift.

He thought I was asleep.

He slipped out of bed, pulled on pants and a shirt, and left the s
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