“Seems like your visiting hours are over. Those documents need more of my attention than this conversation does. So would you mind leaving me alone to tend to business?”
The dismissal was clean. Brutal. Delivered with the cold elegance only a man like Arnav could perfect, one who had spent his life fencing emotions behind sharp intellect and colder indifference.
But Raellyn didn’t flinch.
She had expected this. In fact, she'd rehearsed it in her head this moment when he would retreat behind his fortress of silence. When the man who devoured her soul the night before would vanish, leaving only a stranger in his place.
It stung, more than she allowed herself to admit.
So this was who he was now. A man who couldn’t even muster a straight answer about the bed they’d shared, who couldn’t f
