The gallery smelled like paint and dust, like memories being reborn. The walls were white, silent, waiting each canvas a confession hung between truth and illusion. Amara stood in the middle of it all, surrounded by the whispers of her own art. Faces she’d painted months ago stared back at her women caught between storms, men fading at the edges, love immortalized in bruised color.She’d named the collection “Unheard Things.”Fitting, she thought. Because everything that had destroyed her had started with something unheard a letter, a rumor, a truth buried under noise.The lights dimmed slightly as people began to arrive. Journalists with restless eyes. Collectors with hollow smiles. Her manager, pacing at the far end, pretending confidence. And somewhere near the entrance someone watching.Amara couldn’t see him, not clearly. Just a shadow tall, unmoving, as if carved out of hesitation.Jordan had warned her to be careful. His last message had come half an hour ago:“If anything feel
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