His Bride By Contract
“But Liam’s playing dirtier than we thought. He isn’t sloppy. He’s surgical. He leaks, he misdirects, then someone in our ranks masks the trail.”
I leaned forward until the desk edge cut into my palms, the wood biting in a sensation that tethered me to the moment. My voice broke as it rose. “He’s killing her, Eric. Piece by piece. Every headline, every whisper, he’s burying her alive.” The images, Mia’s hollow laughter in interviews, the way strangers pointed, the reporters’ hungry eyes, flared inside my skull. It felt like watching someone I’d promised to save vanish inch by inch beneath the weight of a thousand small cruelties.
Eric took a beat, then answered with a flatness that suggested
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