Chapter 71 – Silent Schemes

The house had turned into a battlefield of silence. Lucas no longer asked me questions. He no longer confronted me with accusations or desperate pleas. Instead, he moved through the rooms like a ghost—present, but unreadable. That frightened me more than anything. Before, I could measure his suspicion in his words, in his tone. Now, there was nothing. His eyes lingered on me too long, his touch absent when it should have been there, his movements deliberate. He was watching. Waiting. Plotting. I woke one night to the sound of footsteps outside the bedroom door. My heart hammered as I listened—measured steps, slow and steady—before they faded into silence. When I opened the door, the hallway was empty. Lucas hadn’t gone back to bed. Downstairs, the faint glow of the living room lamp revealed him sitting in the armchair, staring at nothing. He didn’t even look up when I descended the stairs. “Luc

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Chapter 72 – Traps in the Dark

The following days unfolded like a twisted game of chess, every move calculated, every silence louder than words.Lucas didn’t accuse me anymore. He didn’t raise his voice, didn’t question where I went, or why my phone lingered too long in my hands. Instead, he began to notice.I found my jewelry box slightly shifted one morning, as if someone had been counting the time it took me to return. My phone charger unplugged, but neatly coiled. My perfume bottle tilted just a fraction to the left, the kind of detail only someone desperate for answers would notice.He was tracking me without saying it. Waiting for me to slip.And the worst part? He wasn’t wrong.Adrian, on the other hand, was no longer content with stolen hours.He summoned me to his private chambers more frequently, his messages short, commanding: Come. Now.The man was fire and storm combined, and every time I tried to resist, he pulled me in deeper.

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Chapter 71 – Silent Schemes

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