The cold silence in the room was louder than any argument we could have had.Adrian sat at the edge of the hotel bed, his head bowed, fingers laced tightly together. I stood near the window, watching the slow drizzle outside blur the lights of Prague. We had not planned to come here. Prague had not been on any itinerary, not part of any step in the careful, methodical plan we had been building since Dubai. But plans have a way of dissolving when events move faster than the people trying to manage them. The SEC filing had triggered something we hadn’t fully anticipated a response from Cole’s side that had been faster, and more dangerous, than either of us had accounted for.We had forty-eight hours of warning. Enough to move. Not enough to feel safe.Now we were here, in a hotel room above a cobblestone street in a city that had nothing to do with us, and the silence between us was doing the thing it had stopped doing weeks ago pressing in, filling the space with everything unsaid.I
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