The moment my eyes landed on him, my body betrayed me.I froze.It was as if the entire bar disappeared—the music dulled, the conversations faded, the air thickened until breathing felt unnatural. My feet refused to move, my fingers curled slightly at my sides, and my heart… my heart began pounding so violently I was certain he could hear it across the room.Six years.Six long, exhausting years of burying memories, of convincing myself I was healed, of believing I had moved on.And yet, there he was.Vincent Markson.Standing right in front of me, alive, real, solid—no longer a ghost haunting my nightmares, no longer a memory I could keep locked away.Time collapsed.Suddenly I wasn’t standing in a quiet Paris bar anymore. I was back six years ago. Back to the first day our eyes had met. Back to the awkward tension, the reluctant attraction, the way he had looked at me then—cold, unreadable, dangerous. Back to promises unspoken and wounds that never healed.It felt like the universe
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