Morning came slowly.Amelia didn’t sleep well.Every sound in her apartment had felt too loud during the night. Pipes. Wind. The faint creak of the building settling.Nothing dangerous.Yet nothing comforting either.She sat at her kitchen table with a cup of untouched coffee, staring at her phone like it might explain the messages from last night if she looked long enough.It didn’t.Alexander hadn’t called again.But she saw a new message from him when she finally checked.I’m sending someone to your building. Don’t be alarmed.Amelia frowned slightly.She typed back.I don’t need a bodyguard.The reply came quickly.This isn’t a request.That should have annoyed her.Instead, it just made her more aware of how serious things were getting.She set the phone down and leaned back in her chair.Something about all this didn’t sit right.Natasha had always been calculated, yes. But this level of intrusion, surveillance, and psychological pressure felt… bigger.Like she wasn’t acting alo
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