RUTHLESS HEARTS COLLIDE
Not pushing, just… being there.
Finally, he spoke.
“When I was fourteen,” he said quietly, “my father put me into a program. A private boarding facility. He said it was for discipline. Control. Strength.”
Arielle frowned. “That sounds… harsh.”
“It was,” he replied. “It was also where they trained us. Conditioned us. Broke us.”
She swallowed. “Damian…”
His eyes opened then, and the pain in them was raw, unarmored.
“The program was shut down years later,” he continued. “Human rights violations, Lawsuits, Investigations, The board worries the press will dig it up again. They think if the marriage fails, it will draw too much attention.”
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