Third Person's POVTen seconds of dead silence.Finally, Mortimer spoke. His voice was a low, jagged rasp, like he was dragging the words over broken glass. "That man she's seeing... how long has it been?"Trista froze. She blinked, sure she'd misheard him."...Excuse me?"It took two seconds for her brain to catch up, and when it did, she went from confused to livid in a heartbeat. "Mortimer, you've spent three years wrapped around another woman, and now you're trying to flip the script? You're actually trying to drag Sera's name through the mud?""'Dash'." Mortimer spat the name out like a curse.The rage on Trista's face hit a brick wall."The man named Dash," Mortimer repeated. His face was as dark as a canyon before a blizzard. He said the name with a low, rhythmic growl, the sound of a predator grinding bone.Trista's shock lasted exactly three seconds.Then, something else flickered in her eyes.She crossed her arms and leaned against a stone pillar, her expression shifting from
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