Aria's P.O.V"Wait."The word left my mouth before I could stop it.Damien paused halfway down the hallway and looked back at me, his hand still wrapped around mine. "What?"I stared at him for several seconds, still trying to process everything he had just said.A penthouse…above my apartment building.A secret renovation project that had somehow turned into a future plan that somehow involved living right next to me.The realization made my stomach twist into knots, because I had spent the last week convincing myself that he was hiding another woman or an entire family in the closet, while he had apparently been building an entire life around me.God…I wanted the floor to open up and swallow me whole."You were really doing all this for me?" I asked quietly. “You were really just making plans for the renovations while I…”Something softened in Damien's expression. "I wasn't building it for a stranger, that’s why I knew I had to take care of all the aspects of the renovation by mysel
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