The confession still lingered in the air, heavy and trembling between them. Isabella’s breath caught in her throat, her chest rising and falling as though she had been running, though her feet hadn’t moved an inch. The silence stretched, every second weighed down by the enormity of what had just been said.Her eyes darted over his face, desperately searching for something, doubt, hesitation, regret, yet all she found was a storm of raw, unguarded longing. Damian’s gaze wasn’t careful or calculated, the way it often was when he spoke to her in boardrooms or at his mansion. No. Now, his eyes were stripped bare, revealing the man beneath the power, the steel, the walls he always wore like armor.He wanted her. Not in passing, not as an impulse. He wanted her as though the need had been carved into him long ago, and every breath since had only deepened it.Her lips parted slightly, as if to respond, but no words formed. What could she say? That she had been waiting, aching, praying for th
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