POV: Elara The master suite felt smaller, thicker with tension, as if the reality of what I had just done had sucked all the oxygen from the room. Dante sat on the edge of the dark oak bed, his hands resting heavy on his knees, looking up at me with those intense, storm-dark eyes. The leather folder containing my mother’s silk sketches rested on the desk behind him, a silent monument to the fact that the entire financial infrastructure of the Moretti empire had just been rewired around my heart rate, my thumbprint, my breath. I stood before him, chin tilted high, feeling the shift in power settle into my bones like something inevitable. For months he had held every card. He had dictated my movements, chosen my guards, locked me behind gilded doors under the guise of keeping me safe. He had been the sovereign, and I the prized asset. Now, in the low light of the master suite, I was no longer the captive. I took a slow step closer, the soft silk of my dress whispering against my l
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