DARIAN The city never stopped moving, but today it felt like I was the one left behind.Zaria’s image clung to my memory, haunting my every thought and duty. The sketch of her bare skin burned behind my eyes, no matter how many contracts I signed, no matter how many people talked at me in the boardroom. I nodded at the right times, answered in clipped tones, but I wasn’t there. My mind was still back at the penthouse, standing frozen in that doorway, staring at the one woman I couldn’t seem to cage or control.She lingered like smoke.And I hated it.I hated that my body still reacted to her, that my thoughts betrayed me with memories of her lips, her skin, her laugh, the kind of details a man should’ve buried long ago.“She’s dangerous”, I reminded myself. “Don’t forget why you’re doing this”But then another voice whispered back: “If she’s so dangerous, why does your heart race like this?”I pushed the thought away, slamming a folder shut harder than necessary. My assistant jumped
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