For a long moment, Amara could only stare at Serena.The hallway lights flickered overhead—too bright, too sterile, too indifferent to the weight of the moment. Serena’s bruised face, swollen from the crash and the fight, seemed almost ghostly beneath them.“Serena,” Amara whispered, “what does Barren know about Dominic?”Serena swallowed hard, pulling the hospital blanket tighter around her shoulders.“It isn’t about the docks,” she said quietly. “It isn’t about the contracts or the takeover or whatever Barren thinks Dominic ‘stole’ from him.”“Then what?” Amara demanded, voice filled with urgency she couldn’t contain.Serena looked away.Her voice dropped to barely more than a breath.“Dominic and Caleb… knew each other.”Amara blinked. “What?”“They crossed paths,” Serena said, trembling. “Years ago. When Caleb was still pretending to be the hero in his own story.”“I don’t understand.”Serena lifted her eyes, haunted.“He wasn’t always the man you married, Amara.”Anger flared hot
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