Elisa had been worried the very second Damian’s tone shifted.There had been something different about it—something low, steady, and impossibly serious that didn’t belong to casual conversation. It had threaded through her chest and tightened there, coiling around her heart until she could barely breathe.So she quickly obliged.Without asking too many questions—because questions felt dangerous when his voice sounded like that—she ushered him along with a small, polite gesture of her hand, leading him toward her in-house office. Her heels clicked against the marble floor, each step echoing far louder than usual, as though the house itself sensed the weight of what was about to unfold.She went in first.And he followed.The door shut behind them with a firm, deliberate click.She heard it.She felt it.A sound too final.She turned around just as he had closed it fully, his hand lingering on the handle for a brief second longer than necessary, as if steadying himself.The room suddenl
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