Chapter 111

Seraphina's POVI wasn't sure what made me stay. The chair was still where I'd pulled it, angled slightly toward him, and when he didn't reach for anything or check his phone or do any of the things people do when they're signaling that a meeting is over, I found myself still there—the late afternoon pressing against the window, the study quiet around us in that particular way of rooms that have absorbed a long time of serious thought."Sebastian Reyes." Lorenzo said the name like he was picking up something he'd set down a long time ago. "He and I have a history.""I figured that much."He was quiet for a moment. Not the kind of quiet that meant he was deciding whether to speak—more like he was deciding where to start."Twelve years ago," he said, "Sebastian ran a mid-tier operation in the city. Not a family in the traditional sense. More like a network—financial crime, import logistics, a few politicians in his

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Chapter 112

Seraphina's POVThe silence arrived without warning.One moment we were in the middle of something serious, the next there was nothing left to say, and neither of us reached to fill it. The study lamp threw its circle of warm light across the desk between us. Outside, the garden had gone fully dark.Lorenzo set down the pen. "We've covered what needed covering." He leaned back slightly. "How are you doing? Actually."I blinked."Actually?""You look like you've been sleeping four hours a night for two weeks.""I'm fine.""You keep saying that.""Because it keeps being true."He looked at me for a moment, and then—and this was the part I hadn't expected—the corner of his mouth moved. The almost-smile he deployed rarely and without warning."The last time you said you were fine," he said, "you were sitting on a couch in my house and had been awake for something like thirty hours."

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