Damien’s POVThe air inside the grand foyer felt thick with a suffocating, dead silence. For three days, I had locked myself inside the mansion, leaving the corporate affairs of Cole Enterprises to implode under the sudden weight of my absence. I did not care about stock options, board meetings, or market fluctuations. My world had shrunk down to a single, agonizing obsession: finding the woman I had driven into the dark.I stood at the top of the grand staircase, watching six armed security guards carry out the last of Liliana’s designer wardrobe in heavy black storage trunks. Every gown she had worn, every piece of jewelry I had bought her, and every personal item she had brought into this house was being loaded onto flatbed trucks to be dumped at the city incinerator."Make sure nothing remains," I ordered, my voice hollow and raspy from lack of sleep. "If I find a single item belonging to that woman in this house by sunset, every man on this shift is fired.""Understood, Mr. Cole,
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