Seven Years of Love Seven Minutes of Truth

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Chapter 4

Chapter 4

I never expected Nina to come looking for me.

The restaurant was crowded that evening, the warm glow of the overhead lights casting soft reflections on the polished wooden tables. I barely looked at her when I set down the dish, just another customer in the endless stream of faces I served every day.

“Enjoy your meal.” I said, the words automatic, practiced.

But then–she spoke.

“You’re Cecilia?”

The way she said my name sent a slow chill through me.

I turned my head, finally meeting her gaze.

She was watching me, appraising me like I was something cheap on a store shelf, something barely worth a glance, let alone her attention. Her perfectly manicured fingers toyed with the stem of her wine glass, a smirk playing at the

corner of her lips.

Then, she let out a soft laugh–sharp, disdainful.

“Do you even have more than a hundred dollars on you right now?” Her voice dripped with mockery. “Where the hell did you crawl out from, huh?”

I didn’t react.

I just looked at her, my expression giving nothing away.

a nail against the glass. “Two years by Pax’s

But i

tell me–do you even know who he really is?”

tilted my head slightly. “And if

you’re dumber than

one who had been spoiled, adored, shielded from the

entire life.

could already see the cracks forming

She leaned forward slightly, voice lowering into

ground.

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“Or you’ll stick around just long enough to be discarded. And trust me,

I said nothing.

there to

my heel, ready to walk away.

moved

up from her seat and reached for my wrist, her grip delicate but insistent.

back. I hadn’t even used much

And yet-

heels slipping against the polished

dragging plates and glasses down in a cascading

seemed to go still.

hear was the sharp ring of broken

a switch had flipped–Nina changed.

the sharp, arrogant woman from

in

she whispered, voice