The Aston Martin's engine ticked as it cooled. Fog drifted through the cypress trees, silver in the moonlight. Elena sat motionless in the passenger seat, her dress still damp between her thighs, her husband's ring heavy on her finger."Home," she repeated, testing the word.Alexander rounded the hood and opened her door. The gesture was old-fashioned. Deliberate. His hand extended toward her, palm up, and when she took it, his fingers closed around hers with the same certainty he'd shown in the jewelry store, in the chapel, in every moment since."You're trembling.""I've been trembling since two o'clock this afternoon."His mouth curved. "Good."The front door recognized his palm print. It swung open onto a foyer of glass and warm wood, the far wall entirely transparent, the Pacific a black mirror beyond. Moonlight cut silver paths across the floor. Elena registered the sweep of the staircase, the abstract painting that dominated one wall, the scent of leather and cedar and somethin
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