"The Shadow of the Billionaire"

e, uninteresting emails, and a painful absence that she tried to bury under responsibilities. But that

marriage. We hope to see many of y

heartbeats. Clara... her best friend. Ethan... the man she had loved more than anything, the one for whom she h

r life, of pretending that this story was in the past. But the pain returned with an incredible violence. Her eyes ran

again. This time,

pecial guests. Come and discover

name that was not entirely unknown to him. Gabriel Hartman. The businessman wh

ving an invitatio

rself that none of this had anything to do with her. But something insi

were tense, marked by that invisible fatigue that only buried pain could cause. Clara

ts. Maybe it was tim

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as elegant as

uxury and pretense. Alice stood near the entrance, a glass of ch

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of the room. Tall, imposing, dressed in a dark suit tailored to perfection. His features were almost un

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staring at her with inscrutable interest. Then, in one fluid

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