SEVEN DAYS TO SAY FOREVER
Leo chimed in from across the table, mimicking Clara’s dramatic tone as she complained loudly to a waiter about a floral arrangement being moved three centimeters.
The light exchange broke the suffocating weight in my chest, but the comfort didn't last.
Across the linen tablecloth, Dominic was watching us. His face was still white from exhaustion, his expensive designer watch conspicuously missing, but a cold, calculated glint had returned to his eyes. He rose from his chair, completely ignoring Clara's chatter, and walked straight over to our side of the table.
He pulled out a small, faded yellow slip of paper—a banking receipt from a New York foreclosure branch dated exactly seven years ag