Ava’s POV The silence that followed my forced compliance was a heavy, suffocating thing. I sat there, a puppet with severed strings, watching as Damian slid a leather-bound planner toward me. It was a handcrafted piece, the kind of bespoke item that probably cost more than my first car, its dark, supple leather a cruel mockery of the life of luxury I was now forced to live. The paper inside was thick and crisp, the ink from his fountain pen still fresh in places, a testament to his meticulous, controlling nature. Every page was filled—meetings, dinners, trips. No room for accidents, no cracks to slip through. He had my life planned, too, down to the second. “You’ll memorize it,” he said simply, as though asking me to commit three months of his life to memory was as ordinary as requesting a cup of coffee. He was testing me, pushing the boundaries of my obedience, waiting for me to falter. I forced my trembling hands to open the planner, to flip through the first few weeks. Paris. G
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