Beneath the strategy, his touch turned tender, reassuring. As dessert arrived—a decadent chocolate mousse—he pulled me onto his lap, the terrace breeze ruffling my hair. "Enough talk of shadows," he murmured, his hand slipping under my skirt, fingers tracing lazy circles on my inner thigh. "Let me remind you of the light." We made love slowly that night in our bed, the sheets a tangled sea around us. Face-to-face, his eyes locked on mine, unblinking, as he moved inside me with deliberate, languid strokes. "You're my everything, Elena," he whispered between kisses, his lips mapping my jaw, my neck. "My strength, my weakness. Don't ever doubt that." I clung to him, my nails digging into his back as pleasure built in waves, cresting softly rather than crashing. "I love you, Alexander," I gasped as release washed over us simultaneously, binding us closer. "Sir... my Sir." But as I drifted to sleep in his arms, Victoria's words echoed in the recesses of my mind like a malevolent whis
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