AriannaI woke in silk sheets that weren’t mine.The air was heavy with quiet, too still to be natural. For a moment, I lay frozen, trying to piece together how I got here. Then I remembered the signature. My father’s trembling hands. Dante Moretti’s eyes on me like a sealed fate.Collateral.I sat up. The room was the size of my old apartment. Cream walls, gold trim, windows draped in thick velvet. Everything was too perfect and too expensive like a cage built to make you forget you’re imprisoned. My clothes from yesterday were gone. In their place, on a chair at the end of the bed, was a folded white silk slip with no underwear.I didn’t wear it.Instead, I stormed out of the bedroom in Dante Moretti’s estate barefoot, in a robe, teeth clenched, and ready to make a scene.The hallway was silent, the kind of silence that screamed luxury and power. I wandered through until I found the dining room, where he sat at the head of a long table, reading something on his phone. Black shirt, s
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