- Luca
A heavy, dangerous quiet settled over us. It was that specific kind of silence that usually comes right before something valuable gets ruined.
Aria looked down at the papers in her grip. Deeds to properties, certificates of assets, and complex trust allocations stared back at her.
This wasn't just some inheritance; it was a massive transfer of power.
Her fingers clamped down hard. She was white-knuckling the folder so tightly I thought the cardboard might actually snap.
“No,” she said, shaking her head before I even opened my mouth. “This is wrong.”
I lingered in the doorway, my arms folded as I tracked her every move. I saw the way she hunched her shoulders, as if she could physically shrink away from the crushing weight of that inheritance.
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