The moment should have ended when the eye contact broke. It should have dissolved into the background noise of the gala, another fleeting friction in a night full of them.It didn’t.Even as Alexander looked away, Elena felt the residual weight of his gaze. It was a physical presence, a static charge that clung to her skin and made the silk of her dress feel suddenly constricting. Every breath she drew felt heavy, as if the oxygen in the room had been replaced by something thicker, more volatile.“You’re thinking too much.”Daniel’s voice, low and grounding, sliced through the fog of her thoughts. Elena blinked, pulling herself back from the edge of the abyss, and forced her focus onto the man in front of her.“Am I?”“Yes,” he said, a faint, sad smile playing on his lips. “You used to do that when something bothered you. Your eyebrows would knit together right in the middle.”Used to. The words echoed with the hollow sound of a door closing.“People change, Daniel,” she said, her voi
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