Amelia’s POVI hadn’t felt this hollow in years.The house was too quiet. No Liz’s laughter echoing from my phone. No buzzing messages. Just me, my thoughts, and the sharp certainty that I had somehow managed to burn down every bridge I’d ever stood on.Liz hated me. Gabriel was gone, back behind the safe professional distance I’d insisted on.Rowan—God, Rowan—was a labyrinth I no longer trusted myself to enter. And my work, the one thing that had always been mine, was still tangled up with his name.I lay on the couch staring at the ceiling, one arm draped dramatically over my eyes like a tragic Victorian heroine."Well done, Amelia," I muttered to myself. "Truly. A masterclass in self-destruction."Just then, my laptop chimed.I groaned, rolling onto my side. "If that’s another spam email, I swear—"But it wasn’t.Subject: Invitation – International Architecture Congress, MilanI blinked.Then I sat bolt upright.My heart began to pound as I opened it.Dear Ms. Hartwell,Following
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