Scarlett's POV.Sleep had never been particularly kind to me, but lately it had stopped pretending to try.I lay on my side, staring at the wall in the dark with Luca's quiet breathing filling the space behind me. He had come to bed without a word tonight. No attempt to reach for me, no poorly disguised manipulation dressed up as affection. Just silence, which somehow felt louder than anything he could have said.I should have been grateful for the quiet.*You are grateful,* I told myself. *You're just not sleeping.*There was a difference. A small one, but it existed.Instead of sleeping, my mind had decided that tonight was the perfect occasion to replay a conversation it had no business obsessing over. The kind of replay that came with no pause button, no option to skip ahead, just the same moments circling back in the same order, finding new things to snag on every single time.It had started simply enough. Dominic and I had been sitting in his study after the last attack, the adr
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