~Delia~I didn’t call him. I didn’t need to. Victor Hale was always awake at this hour, and he was always hungry for whatever scraps of Windsor information I could bring him. But today, I wasn't bringing information—I was bringing a problem that was eating me alive from the inside out.His penthouse in the sky was a monument to glass, steel, and a cold, clinical kind of luxury. When the elevator doors opened directly into his living room, he was standing at the floor-to-ceiling window, a glass of amber liquid in his hand. He wasn't wearing a shirt, just black silk trousers, his back a map of hard muscle and old scars.He didn't turn around. He didn't have to. He knew my scent."You smell like desperation and expensive perfume, Delia," he said, his voice a smooth, dark honey. "Did Julian finally kick you out of the big house?""He told me to go back to my father," I hissed, crossing the room. "He called me useless."Victor turned then. His eyes were wired, glowing with that predatory s
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