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Chapter 49
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unmasked desire chapter 62
Elias doesn’t intend to find Alexander.He tells himself he’s just walking, moving without direction, letting the tension drain from his body after a sleepless night. But his feet carry him somewhere familiar anyway, toward the quieter wing of the estate, where the old library opens onto a narrow terrace overlooking the inner gardens.Alexander is there.He stands with his back to the doors, jacket discarded, sleeves rolled to his forearms, staring out at the gray morning light as if trying to read something written into the fog.For a moment, Elias considers turning away.Then Alexander speaks without looking back. “You’re awake early.”“So are you.”“I didn’t sleep.”“Neither did I.”That admission feels like a bridge already built.Elias steps forward, stopping a few feet away. The space between them hums not charged with desire this time, but with something heavier. Something honest.They don’t look at each other at first.“I’ve been thinking,” Elias says.Alexander’s shoulders te
unmasked desire chapter 61
The night air is cool against Elias’s skin.He doesn’t remember deciding to leave the house only the suffocating pressure of walls, expectations, and words that couldn’t be taken back. He wanders the grounds of the mansion on instinct, drawn toward the far edge of the property where the lights thin and the stars reclaim the sky.Here, the world feels quieter. Less performative.Elias rests his hands on the iron railing overlooking the darkened gardens, breathing in slowly, trying to calm the residual tremor in his chest. Defending Alexander hadn’t been planned. It had risen out of him like a reflex raw, unfiltered.Terrifying.Footsteps approach behind him.He knows who it is before Alexander speaks.“You shouldn’t be out here alone,” Alexander says softly.Elias doesn’t turn. “I needed air.”A pause. Then Alexander moves to stand beside him, close enough that Elias can feel his presence without touching. The silence between them is different from before less brittle, more exposed.Th
unmasked desire chapter 60
Family dinners at the Vale house have always followed an unspoken script.Appear on time. Dress correctly. Speak when spoken to. Avoid anything real.Elias hasn’t sat at the long dining table in nearly a week, and stepping back into the room feels like walking into a play already in progress. The crystal glasses are perfectly aligned. The candles burn evenly. His mother sits at the head of the table, posture immaculate, while his father scans something on his tablet, jaw tight.Alexander arrives last.He looks composed in the way Elias has learned to recognize as deliberate suit impeccable, expression neutral, movements economical. He takes his seat across from Elias without meeting his eyes.The air is tense before anyone speaks.Dinner is served. Plates are filled. Small talk limps forward on obligation alone.Elias pokes at his food, appetite nonexistent. Across from him, Alexander eats mechanically, barely tasting anything. Their mother talks about an upcoming charity function, he
unmasked desire chapter 59
The storm doesn’t begin loudly.It starts with a notification.Elias is halfway through a cup of coffee in his temporary apartment when his phone vibrates against the table. He almost ignores it, his mornings have become a careful ritual of avoidance but Marcus is still asleep in the other room, and the silence presses too close. He glances down.A gossip blog.One he recognizes immediately.His stomach tightens before he even opens it.The headline is efficient in its cruelty.VALE HEIR SPOTTED AT EXCLUSIVE UNDERGROUND CLUB—WHAT IS ALEXANDER REALLY HIDING?Elias’s fingers go cold.He clicks.The photos load one by one.Alexander, captured mid-step at night, coat collar turned up, expression unreadable. Another angle: entering a discreet building with no signage. Another: leaving hours later, jaw tight, eyes shadowed, looking exactly like a man who hasn’t slept.The article is speculative rather than definitive, which somehow makes it worse.Anonymous sources. Suggestive language. Que
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Elias waits until the apartment is silent before opening the envelope.Marcus is out giving him space without having to be asked. The temporary apartment smells faintly of coffee and laundry detergent, unfamiliar and impersonal, like a place meant for recovery rather than living. Elias sits on the edge of the couch, letter resting in his hands as if it might burn him.Alexander’s handwriting is unmistakable.Precise. Controlled. Even now.For a long moment, Elias doesn’t open it. His fingers curl around the paper, chest tight, heart thudding with the kind of fear that has nothing to do with danger and everything to do with truth.Then he exhales.And reads.At first, anger rises hot and immediate as his eyes move over the opening lines.You deserve the truth.The words almost make him scoff.Of course I do.He keeps reading anyway.As the letter unfolds, Elias feels something unexpected happen. The rage doesn’t disappearbbut it shifts. It loses its sharpness, blunting into something h
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Alexander has written the letter five times already.Each version lies torn and crumpled in the wastebasket beside his desk, paper creased with violence he doesn’t allow himself anywhere else. The penthouse is quiet too quiet. No staff. No calls. No meetings. Just the hum of the city below and the steady, relentless ticking of the clock on the wall.Time, reminding him of what he’s already lost.He sits again, pen poised over fresh paper, hands finally steady not because he’s calm, but because there’s nothing left to protect. The lies are gone. The mask is gone. All that remains is the truth, stripped of performance.He doesn’t know if Elias will read this.He doesn’t know if he deserves to be heard.But silence would be another form of cowardice.So he writes.Elias,I don’t know if you’ll ever want to speak to me again, and I won’t pretend this letter earns me that right. I’m writing because you deserve the truth, the full truth without interruption, without persuasion, without my v
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