Inside a suite lit by one lone lamp, Nicholas lounged half upright on the edge of the mattress, shirt open at the collar, eyes cold as winter glass.
A woman knelt on the carpet, mascara running through fresh bruises. She hugged her torn coat to her trembling shoulders.
"M-Mr. Nicholas... please, just let me go," she sobbed.
He regarded her with bored detachment, as though she were part of the décor.
"Everything that happened tonight stays buried," he said, voice flat, almost sleepy. The woman blinked, then bobbed her head so fast it blurred. "Yes."
"You may leave."
She scrambled up, snatched her purse, and fled toward the hallway light that promised escape.
Out in the corridor, she pressed against the wall, heart in her throat. She had walked in dreaming of a golden future, only to discover the fabled heir was as unreachable as a statue and twice as cold.
Fear crawled over greed. Earlier she had paid a photographer to catch them together once alcohol had softened his guard.
She dialed frantically. "Delete the shots. Do not upload anything ever!"
"Too late. I already blasted them to every outlet," the voice replied.
her veins. "You're
up, opened a news app, and saw her own face
taxi that screeched by and barked for the airport, certain only that Tudela was now a city she could never again
in the dim hotel room, Nicholas remained where she had left him, eyes aimed at nothing, as if the
still bright from an earlier call.
on the
crease cut across
a minute, the answer stared back at him—his own face
around the phone. That woman-she's going to
just to see if another woman's voice could drown out the only one he wanted.
lips and practiced
wound up in
but the moment
froze. Desire never arrived, and nothing happened beyond an
picked up his phone
you seen the news?" Nicholas asked, voice stripped
the other end, the man jerked awake, scroll-checked the headlines, and gulped. "Mr.
the coverage. Deal with the person who leaked it,"
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