The Billionaire's Temporary Mistress
Sophie POV
The scent of vanilla and cinnamon, Lila’s favorite cookies usually wrapped the Blackstone penthouse kitchen in a warm, sugary embrace. Today, it felt like a suffocating blanket, thick and cloying, pressing down on me as I carefully placed another batch onto the cooling rack. The rhythmic “thump-thump-thump” of Lila’s forgotten soccer ball against the terrace door, a sound usually met with fond exasperation, now echoed with a hollow loneliness. Damien was sequestered in his study, the low, resonant murmur of his voice cutting through the silence, another late conference call with Tokyo for Blackstone Enterprises. The penthouse, usually a haven of controlled chaos and love, felt cav
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