Chapter 48: (Damien’s POV) I stood in the living room, motionless, as rain slid down the glass walls of the penthouse. Outside, the city lights blurred and stretched, melting into one another as if the night itself was crying. The view I once loved now felt distant, unreal, like it belonged to someone else. The penthouse was too quiet, too wide, too empty. Only minutes earlier, this space had been filled with raised voices, sharp truths, and the kind of silence that comes right before something breaks. Sophia was gone. The air still carried the faint trace of her presence—something warm and human that refused to disappear immediately. My chest felt tight, as if the room were slowly shrinking around me. I had survived boardroom wars, hostile takeovers, public scandals. None of them had ever made me feel this unsteady. I walked toward the glass table, each step heavy, deliberate. My phone lay there, face up, like an accusation. When I picked it up, the cracked screen bit into my th
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