Hidden Obsession
It began with research.
At night, when Adrian drifted to sleep beside him, Evan lay awake, laptop balanced on his knees. He scrolled through jewelers’ websites, examining cut, clarity, band thickness. He compared settings, saved tabs, built a collection of options like a hunter choosing the sharpest weapon. He wasn’t looking for beauty alone—though Adrian deserved that, of course. He was looking for symbolism. Something unbreakable. Something that would sit on Adrian’s hand and scream taken to anyone who saw it.
By day, he shifted seamlessly into his CEO mask, his assistant never suspecting that the “investments” he was reviewing were side-by-side comparisons of diamond quality.
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