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Chapter 51
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The first night Elias sleeps in his own room again, he dreams of silence.Not the club’s heavy quiet or the charged stillness of Alexander’s presence just an empty, neutral hush, like snowfall muffling the world. When he wakes, the dream fades but the quiet remains. For once, his thoughts don’t immediately spiral.That alone feels like progress.He lies on his back, staring at the ceiling, breathing slowly. Three days ago, every inhale had felt sharp, every memory a blade. Now the pain has softened into something duller still present, still deep, but no longer actively bleeding.Processing, he thinks. This must be what it feels like.He doesn’t reach for his phone. Doesn’t replay messages he hasn’t answered. Doesn’t check whether Alexander has called again.Instead, he closes his eyes and lets himself remember.Not the unmasking. Not the confrontation.The sessions.At first, the memories make his stomach tighten.The blindfold. The careful instructions. The way the guide’s voice had
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The study was too quiet.Not the comfortable silence of shared focus, but the brittle kind that threatened to shatter with the wrong word, the wrong breath. Tall shelves lined the walls, heavy with books that smelled of leather and age. Sunlight filtered in through narrow windows, striping the floor like bars.Elias stood near the desk, arms crossed tightly over his chest.Alexander remained by the window, hands clasped behind his back.They had been summoned here under the pretense of efficiency finish the projections, resolve the discrepancies, present a united front. Their parents’ words echoed faintly in Elias’s mind, hollow and infuriating.Appearances. Always appearances.Alexander cleared his throat. “The Zurich accounts need final approval. If we don’t move by Friday—”“I know,” Elias said sharply. “I’ve read the reports.”Alexander nodded once. “Then you’ll see the risk is minimal if—”“Alexander,” Elias interrupted, his voice controlled but brittle. “Let’s not pretend this i
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The summons came disguised as obligation.Elias received the message midmorning, his mother’s tone clipped even through text formal, unmistakably non-negotiable.Family meeting. This afternoon. Business matters. Both of you need to be present.No questions. No concern. Just expectation.Marcus watched Elias read it, watched the color drain from his face.“You don’t have to go,” Marcus said immediately.Elias shook his head slowly. “Yes, I do.”Because in the Vale family, absence was louder than any protest. Because refusal would only invite scrutiny he wasn’t ready to face. Because no matter how fractured everything felt, the machine of family, reputation, and legacy did not stop turning just because someone was hurting.He arrived at the estate fifteen minutes early and sat in his car, hands resting uselessly on the steering wheel.He hadn’t seen Alexander since the night at the club.Not really.No masks now. No controlled distance. No illusion of separation.Just the knowledge sitt
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Elias didn’t go home.The decision wasn’t dramatic. It wasn’t even fully conscious. He simply didn’t turn the car toward the Vale estate after leaving the club. He drove until his hands ached from gripping the wheel, until the city blurred into meaningless streets, until the only place that felt even remotely possible was Marcus’s apartment.Marcus took one look at him and didn’t ask questions.That, more than anything, nearly broke him.Three days passed.Three days of borrowed clothes and sleepless nights, of sitting on Marcus’s couch staring at nothing, of his phone lighting up over and over again on the coffee table while he pretended not to see it.His mother called first. Then again. Then left a voicemail full of worry thinly disguised as irritation.Alexander didn’t call.He texted.Once.Please let me know you’re safe.Elias turned the phone face down and didn’t respond.By the second day, Marcus had stopped offering food every few hours and started simply leaving plates nearb
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Chapter 51: Alexander AloneAlexander didn’t go home.He couldn’t.The Vale mansion its symmetry, its silence, the ghosts of Elias’s footsteps felt like a trap waiting to close. So he drove past it without slowing, past the gates and the long, familiar curve of the driveway, and kept going until the city swallowed him whole.His penthouse loomed above the skyline like a monument to control. Glass, steel, order. Every line intentional. Every surface curated.He slammed the door behind him hard enough to rattle the walls.For a moment, he stood there in the entryway, breathing like he’d run miles instead of driven. His hands were still trembling. His chest felt tight, compressed, as though something enormous sat on it and refused to move.Elias’s face wouldn’t leave him.The shock.The devastation.The way recognition had come not slowly, but all at once like a car crash you hear before you feel.Alexander let out a broken sound that might have been a laugh if it hadn’t been so raw.“I
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“Elias wait.”Alexander’s voice followed him down the corridor, stripped of authority, stripped of disguise. It sounded wrong now too real, too close to home.Elias didn’t slow.His hands were shaking so badly he nearly missed the exit, nearly slammed into the glass doors instead of pushing through them. The night air hit him like ice water, sharp and unforgiving. He sucked in a breath that burned his lungs and kept moving.Behind him, Alexander called his name again.Elias broke into a run.He didn’t remember how he got to his car. He remembered fumbling with the keys, dropping them once, swearing under his breath as his vision blurred. He remembered the engine roaring to life and the tires screeching as he pulled out too fast, reckless, uncaring.He drove.He didn’t know where.The city blurred past in streaks of neon and shadow, traffic lights turning red then green without meaning. He ignored his phone when it buzzed once, twice, then stopped. He kept his eyes on the road because
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