SCORNED EX WIFE : Queen Of Ashes
Not falling, not yet, but weakening.
"I don't want to make promises I can't keep," she said, her voice barely above a whisper. "I don't know if I can trust like that again."
"I'm not asking for promises," Alexander said. "Just... possibility. The chance to see where this goes, one day at a time."
Camille looked down at the silver rose pendant in her palm, then back up at Alexander. His eyes held no demands, only patient hope.
Something shifted inside her, not the calculated moves of a chess player Victoria had taught her to be, but something more organic. Growth pushing through concrete.
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