Aurelia POV My heart skips.Something important?The way he looked didn’t feel like good news. Not even close. His shoulders were too stiff, his eyes too careful, like someone handling glass they already know is cracked.“I’m listening,” I signed back, my fingers trembling despite my effort to keep them steady.He hesitated. Just a little. But I saw it. The warmth that had wrapped me minutes ago was gone, replaced with a quiet caution, the kind that means someone is about to hurt you and knows it.I prayed it wasn’t what my mind kept screaming at my heart. I refused to believe he would ever do that. Not him. Not us.The paranoia I had shoved away crept back into my chest, sharp and insistent. My body shook lightly, nerves buzzing beneath my skin.He wouldn’t. We had come too far. Too much history, too many promises, too much healing to let the past tear through what we had built so carefully.Seth sighed, deep and heavy, then stood up. He reached for a file on the shelf nearby.My he
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