Fractured Desire
The air was thick with the scent of expensive perfume and the low, aggressive hum of political maneuvering.
“We are walking into a viper pit, Elara,” Adrian murmured, his voice low, intimate, and completely masked by the ambient noise. He guided me past a grouping of society matrons whose eyes raked over the emerald silk with undisguised jealousy. “Every single person here knows about Cassandra’s attack and your past. They are waiting for you to flinch.”
“They will wait a long time,” I countered, my voice a steady, low current. I looked up at him, injecting my gaze with the absolute conviction he had demanded. “I am wearing the conviction. Tell me the first strike, Adrian. Who is the first v
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