Ivy didn’t go back immediately.She stayed in the hallway long after the call ended—Breathing.Thinking.Trying not to fall apart.Emily was alive.That should have comforted her.Instead—It terrified her more.Because now she knew this wasn’t random.This was planned.Every piece.Every move.Every lie.And somehow—She was standing in the center of all of it.The penthouse suddenly felt colder.Like it already knew she was slipping away.When Ivy finally returned—Sebastian looked up immediately.Too quickly.Like he’d been tracking the seconds she was gone.“Where were you?”There it was again.Not concern first.Control first.Ivy felt irritation flare instantly.“Walking.”His eyes narrowed slightly.“You disappeared.”“I was gone for two minutes.”“In this situation, two minutes matters.”The room thickened with tension immediately.Rafael stayed silent near the monitors.Lucien was speaking quietly into an earpiece.Jaxon typing rapidly across security feeds.But everyone fel
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