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“Let’s start. Stand closer together.”
Jade stepped beside me. I could feel the tension radiating off her immediately. She felt fragile, like a piece of porcelain that had been handled too many times.
“Just relax,” the photographer prompted. “Jade, lean into him. Look like you actually want to be there.”
I looked down at her. “You are tired.”
“I am fine, Killian,” she whispered, though her hands were trembling slightly.
She was not fine. The realization sparked a cold, sharp anger in my chest—not at her, but at the machine I had put her in. I turned my head toward the photographer. “We are done. We will reschedule.”
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