It's Just Business
Brandon's POV
The penthouse was quiet. Way too quiet.
But this is exactly what I wanted, space, order, silence. For weeks, the walls had carried voices that weren’t mine, footsteps that didn’t belong here. Aria’s books laying around, Ada’s precise and clipped movements, and above all, Alexis. Her presence had been inescapable. She left traces of herself everywhere: the faint scent of whatever she used in her hair, the quiet rhythm of her humming in the kitchen alone early in the morning, the way her laugh cracked the polished walls I’d built over the years.
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