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Adrian’s POVI had seen Elena in expensive dresses before, but tonight felt different in a way I could not quite explain without sounding like a fool.Maybe it was the color. A soft champagne shade that seemed to catch the light every time she moved, warm and delicate and somehow still impossible to ignore. Maybe it was the way the dress fit her so perfectly, fitted through the waist and falling in graceful layers that made her look like she had stepped out of something far too beautiful to be real. Or maybe it was simply Elena herself, because she had that effect on me whether she was wearing silk, anger, or one of those stubborn little expressions that usually meant she was about to say something sharp.Tonight, though, she looked breathtaking.Not in the empty way people used that word when they wanted to sound poetic. I mean breathtaking in the truest sense of it. The kind that actually made my chest tighten for a second and reminded me, very inconveniently, that I was still ca

Elena’s POVI stared at Lila, my arms still crossed tightly over my chest. The ropes were gone, but the anger in my body hadn’t faded even a little.“You met Enzo,” I repeated flatly. “That’s what this whole kidnapping drama is about?”Lila nodded, looking exhausted. She pulled a chair closer and sat down in front of me, her hands clasped tightly in her lap.“I didn’t plan to do it like this,” she said quietly. “But I needed to talk to you alone.”I raised an eyebrow. “So you had me tied to a chair? Really classy, Lila.”Lila winced, then gave a small, sheepish smile. “Oh come on… it’s just me playing with you. You also did it first, remember? Now forget that thing.”I narrowed my eyes but let it go for now.Lila took a deep breath and started talking.“I ran into him two weeks ago. Completely by accident. I was at a café in the city, and he just… appeared. He looked different. Tired. Broken, almost. He begged me to sit down and hear him out. I almost walked away, but something in h

Enzo’s POVThe line went dead.I stood frozen in the middle of my dimly lit penthouse, phone still clutched tightly in my hand. Lila’s voice kept replaying in my mind — calm, determined, and distant. *"I need space… Real space."*No yelling. No accusations. Just a clear boundary. Somehow that made it hurt even more. She hadn’t shut the door on me forever, but the wall she had put up felt colder than outright rejection. I ran a hand through my hair and let out a long, heavy breath.I couldn’t sit still. Before my thoughts could drown me, I dialed Adrian.He picked up on the third ring. “Enzo. You good?”“Not really,” I admitted, walking toward the floor-to-ceiling windows. The city lights stretched out below like a sea of stars. “I just got off the phone with Lila. She asked for complete space — no calls, no flowers, no surprise visits. Nothing. She wants time to think everything through.”Adrian stayed quiet for a moment, then sighed. “You agreed?”“Of course I did. What choice did