Isla's POV:Callum came home earlier than usual that Monday evening, still in his work clothes with his jacket folded over his arm and his tie loosened slightly at the collar.Rosie was at her piano lesson with Maria in the music room at the end of the hallway, the faint sound of hesitant notes drifting through the penthouse walls.He found me in the library where I'd been reading, and he knocked on the open door before entering, which I appreciated more than he probably knew.“We need to talk about Friday,” he said, setting his jacket over the back of a chair and sitting down across from me. “The gala.”I closed my book and waited.“The media scrutiny is going to be intense,” he continued, his tone straightforward and businesslike. “Every photographer in the city will be there. Business journalists, society columnists, gossip bloggers. All of them watching us for any sign that this engagement isn't what we're claiming it is.”I nodded slowly, already sensing where this was heading.H
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