Chapter 81

Edwin's POV The decision to leave the family apartment didn't come lightly.I had stood in the doorway of my bedroom for nearly twenty minutes before I even reached for the duffel bag on the top shelf of the closet , the battered olive-green one I'd used for weekend trips and forgotten about for years. Pulling it down felt like an admission, and I wasn't sure I was ready for that. But my hands moved anyway, as though some quieter, braver part of me had already made the decision and was simply waiting for the rest of me to catch up.As I packed, I felt a strange mixture of relief and dread moving through me in slow alternating waves. The silence in the apartment was deafening , no more shouting, no more accusations, no more of Victor's voice cutting through the rooms like something designed to wound. No more stifling tension pressing against my chest like a heavy weight I'd grown so accustomed to carrying that I'd stopped noticing it was there. But the silence also felt hollow, emptie

Chapter 82

Edwin’s POVThe hotel suite smelled like rain and cedarwood and the faint metallic edge of desperation that always clung to Daniel when he was trying not to fall apart.I stood in the doorway for a long moment after the elevator doors closed behind me, keycard still warm in my palm from the front desk. The room was dim , only the bedside lamps on and the city lights bleeding through the floor-to-ceiling windows, painting long silver stripes across the dark carpet and the wide king bed. No overhead lights. No staff. Just the two of us and the quiet hum of the storm outside.Daniel was already there.He stood at the window wall, back to me, hands in the pockets of his dark trousers, shoulders tight under the white dress shirt. He hadn’t changed out of the suit he’d worn to the last emergency board call. His tie was gone, top button open, hair slightly messy like he’d run his hands through it too many times. He looked exhausted. Haunted. Like the man who had held me through Mom’s funeral

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Chapter 81

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