His Dirty Little Secret
Dante's POV
The words stung, dredging up old guilts, but I pushed them down. Ruthless? Yes, in business. But with Cassidy, it was different—vulnerability shared, not weaponized. I thought of her earlier that night, curled on the couch in my shirt, trusting me implicitly even as shadows loomed. “Cassidy knows me—all of me. The breakdowns, the rebuilds. She doesn’t run from the ugly parts; she faces them with me. That’s trust, Evelyn. Something you never grasped. You saw relationships as mergers—assets and liabilities. When I became a liability, you cut losses. But this? Stalking, harassment, attempting corporate sabotage by leaking merger details? That’s not payback; it’s criminal. Mara’s got
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