The city woke up angry.That was the first thing Amara noticed.Anger moved faster than facts. It didn’t wait for clarification or evidence it fed on implication, on tone, on the way names trended beside words like investigation, fraud, and convenient marriage.Her name.Again.She sat at the edge of the bed, phone discarded beside her, the screen's glow still burned into her vision. Notifications had stopped feeling urgent hours ago. Now they were just noise reporters asking for statements, anonymous accounts speculating, women dissecting her face like it held answers they were owed.Lucas stood by the window, already dressed, already on his third call of the morning.“No,” he said sharply. “We are not responding today. Silence is not guilt.”He ended the call and turned to her. “You should stay offline.”Amara didn’t look at him. “Staying offline didn’t stop them yesterday.”“It limits damage.”“No,” she said quietly. “It limits control.”Lucas paused.“You think this is about you,”
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