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The room was quiet, save for the rhythmic whirl of the ceiling fan and the distant hum of the city pressing against the windows.Somewhere between kisses and the slow stripping away of armor, they’d moved to the small bedroom behind the lounge, a tucked away space meant for VIPs or overindulgent nights. Tonight, it held the weight of something far more fragile.They lay tangled in sheets, chest to chest, legs entwined.Luca on his back, one arm behind his head. Asher curled partially against him, fingers trailing lazily across Luca’s bare shoulder.It wasn’t sex that filled the silence now it was something quieter.Something more terrifying.Intimacy.The kind that comes after everything’s already been said with mouths and hands.“I didn’t think this would ever happen,” Luca murmured into the dark, voice hoarse. “Not after everything.”Asher exhaled, a short breath against his skin. “Neither did I.”They stayed quiet for a moment. Luca’s fingers brushed down Asher’s spine in a slow, a

The world was too loud, but the phone was too quiet.Luca sat on the edge of the leather couch in his penthouse, suit jacket discarded, shirt wrinkled, sleeves rolled up, tie slack at his neck. His hand hadn’t left the phone in over an hour. Not since the message.Not since he told Asher he was there. That he saw him. That he cared.But there was still no reply.No typing bubble. No voicemail. No call.Just… silence.And the sound of the world chewing on Asher’s name like meat.He’d thought the worst was behind them. That the hardest part was surviving the press conference, the boardroom, the backlash.But this?This was different.They weren’t coming after him anymore.They were coming for Asher.The Hartwells had delivered a masterstroke of cruelty. Carefully composed, sterilized for the public, and yet vicious enough to destroy a man.They called him unrecognizable.They called him shameful.They called him not family.And Serena’s name was there, scrawled in digital ink beside it.