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Chapter 69

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The building has grown silent by the time Adrian pulls his car into the underground garage and takes the private elevator up to his penthouse. The hum of the city surrounds him on all sides, muffled through layers of concrete and glass, yet his thoughts are louder still.

He should be exhausted. Hours at the office, countless meetings, endless negotiations—he has worn the mask of the impeccable CEO all day. But the weight pressing on him now has nothing to do with business. It has to do with the woman sitting in the corner of his mind like a storm: Adrianna.

She shouldn’t be here. Not in his world. Not in this building. And yet when he found her in the park, trembling and broken beneath the vastness of the night sky, he couldn’t leave her there. Something in him rebelled at the thought. So now, against reason, she sits in his living room.

The penthouse is quiet, its vast expanse stretching in clean lines of marble, glass, and steel. The windows open onto the city skyline, glittering ag
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