Ezekiel's Pov Travelling had always been easy— my private jets, watch, boardroom, foreign hotels– always familiar, controlled spaces where nothing unexpected ever touched me, but this trip— it felt different. Every single mile between me and that house only sharpened the one thing I felt I could outrun. Sleeping with my brother's wife was a mistake, but now– it felt like something I was dying to repeat. Lauren Wright— I mean Lennox, all thanks to him, she should have been mine, damn I'll treat her better. The thought of her was everywhere, from the tinted windows of my car, to the polished glass walls of the conference room, the pauses between conversation — I was even wishing she was with me on this trip. Even when I sat still, she moved inside my head, uninvited and relentless. The

