Chapter 4: The Venom in the Frame

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For the next few days, Logan left early and came home late. We existed in the penthouse like two ghosts haunting the same graveyard. He slept in the master suite; I stayed in the guest room. When we crossed paths in the vast hallways, the silence between us was heavier than the shattered Baccarat crystal. I saw the exhaustion etched deep into his face, the way his shoulders slumped when he thought I wasn't looking. Part of me, the part that had loved him with reckless abandon for three years, wanted to reach out and smooth the worry lines from his forehead. But then I would remember the heavy cream parchment. Yours always, Serena. And the ice would return, freezing me in place. On Thursday afternoon, I forced myself to attend the annual Metropolitan Museum of Art charity luncheon. It wa

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