phin

of clouds, and the cabin was flooded wi

lass of the window and felt a sensa

le

ife was

te

's bed, a sharp, inexplica

racking, my heart being squ

e name escaping my lips befo

washed over me-prim

ed to

ed to

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?" Isabella murmured

my clothes, my hands sha

r me, her voice laced with irritation.

nd a chaotic storm of unease. The feeling that something

r, the sound echoing in the u

na!" I c

th

my ribs. Her office was tidy, her drafting table

de was

silks, the scent of her perfume tha

wound in the h

ousekeeper, Maria. "Mr. San

demanded, my voice tigh

," she stammered. "The

at, my other line buzzed.

e to my apartment while you were sleeping. She told me... she told me i

ead. It made a sick kind of sense. A jealous wife, pushed too fa

call, my voice cold with anger. "When you hear from

bella's. But as I drove, a deep, gnawing unease about Serap

himmering tears that never fell, the dramatic performance. For the firs

ed at me, telling me to go home, to wait for Sera

the woman I had just wrecked my home for,

woman I had taken for granted,