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Chapter 60: Unwelcome CompanyJace’s POVThe shower had helped more than I expected.Steam still clung to my skin as I walked out of the bathroom, towel in hand, hair damp, the faint peppermint scent of the soap lingering around me. The penthouse was quiet—quiet in that way it always was, where the silence felt too big, too polished, too empty to belong to an actual person. But tonight, for the first time in a long time, the emptiness didn’t press on me the same way.I couldn’t stop thinking about Alex.Everything with him had gone better than I expected—better than I’d allowed myself to hope. I thought he would be wary or shy or uninterested, but no. He took to me like he’d known me for years. The memory of his laugh still sat warm in my chest. The little way he’d grinned when he’d called me Magic Man like he truly believed it, like he thought I could pull something out of thin air.I found myself smiling like an idiot at the thought.I hardly smiled since Aurora left, the only peopl