The moment I saw him something inside me stopped. Not my thoughts. Not my breathing. Something deeper. Something I couldn’t name. He stood behind Lucas in the receiving hall of the hacienda, half a step back, silent, controlled, unmoving. Like a shadow that had chosen to take human form. At first, I thought he was just another business associate. We had plenty of those lately. People coming and going with documents, meetings, restructurings, and discussions I tried my best to understand and manage on my own. So I looked at him the way I looked at everyone else. Politely. Professionally. Without expectation. But the moment my eyes settled on his face everything shifted. I didn’t understand why. He wasn’t doing anything unusual. He wasn’t speaking. He wasn’t even looking at me directly at first. But my chest tightened anyway. A strange heaviness pressed against me, subtle at first, then sharper. Like my body recognized something my mind refused to understand. L
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