Clara couldn’t stop thinking about his words. You could put yourself in danger without even realizing it.
The sentence followed her long after she returned to her room, lingering heavily in her thoughts like a warning she didn’t fully understand. She paced slowly across the bedroom floor while rain continued falling outside, the soft sound mixing with the storm already building inside her chest.
Nothing about Alexander made sense anymore.
One moment he was cold and distant, treating her like another business arrangement. The next moment, he looked genuinely shaken by a single phone call from an unknown number.
And that locked room… Clara stopped pacing.
No matter how hard she tried to ignore it, her curiosity only grew stronger. Something was hidden inside that room.
Something import
