Chapter 17

Twenty–four hours.

That was all the time I had left.

Last night–After Pax asked me to start over, I didn’t respond.

I simply sat there, letting the weight of his words sink into the candlelit hush between us.

The restaurant, once warm and intimate, suddenly felt distant, the glow of the chandeliers dimmed by something neither of us was willing to name.

A silence stretched between us, thick and unresolved.

Pax’s mother, ever perceptive, didn’t push for an answer.

“These kinds of things should be settled between the two of you,” she murmured, dabbing the corner of her lips with a napkin. “Tve had my fill. I’ll be heading home.”

Before leaving, she handed me a gift.

An emerald jade bracelet–delicate, flawless.

I refused instantly.

It was too much, too significant.

But Pax didn’t hesitate. He took it for me, slipping it into his pocket with the ease of someone who had already

decided for me.

“Then I’ll hold onto it for now.”

And then, as if sensing that wasn’t enough, he insisted on picking out another gift.

“Something from me.”

1 didn’t argue.

followed him through the high–end shopping mall, trailing behind

their own life

ran into her.

Nina.

in white. Her makeup was

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perfect picture

she saw Pax, something in her

silent, measured streams. Her shoulders trembled as

slowly,she should really consider acting.

that level of control, she could land a starring

with raw emotion. “He said you were going

clutched the fabric of her dress, wringing it as

believe him.

head, exhaling in

true, isn’t it?”

world around us didn’t

still buzzed in the air.

Yet somehow-

around us

suspended

the three

to me.

needed to read my expression before he could decide how to respond.

I smiled.

curve of my

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