The Sin of His Obsession
The air in the penthouse was cold, despite the warmth of the morning sun. It had been three days, and the unspoken tension was a palpable, living entity, a ghost that moved silently between them all. Chloe felt the unease most acutely in the evenings. While Aiden would spend hours poring over the laptop, trying to decipher M's coded messages, Isabel would be a quiet, elegant presence, offering him coffee, a subtle reminder of their shared past. The jealousy that had first surfaced in Chloe now felt like a living thing, a cold, sharp blade twisting in her gut. She was a woman who had lived a life of color and emotion, but in Isabel's perfectly curated world, she felt like a ghost.