Chapter 5: The Paper He Couldn’t Ignore
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Adrian read the document twice before he allowed himself to breathe.
The paper itself was unremarkable—clean, precise, stripped of any emotion. No explanation. No commentary. Just a signature.
Amara Sinclair.
The name lingered in his mind long after he lowered the page.
Sinclair.
It felt wrong. Not unfamiliar exactly—but out of place, like something he should have noticed long ago and simply hadn’t.
“Adrian?” Selene’s voice cut through his thoughts, soft but persistent.
He folded the paper carefully, slower than necessary, as though delaying the moment he would have to acknowledge what it meant.
“What does it say?” she asked, stepping closer.
“Nothing important.”
It was a lie, and they both knew it. But he slipped the paper back into the envelope anyway, as though containment might dull its impact.
Three years.
Three years of marriage, and not once had he heard that name.
Not once had she offered it.
Not once had he asked.
His jaw tightened as the realisation settled.
“Find everything you can on her,” he said, pulling out his phone.
“Everything?” his assistant asked.
Adrian didn’t hesitate. “Everything.”
Because whatever this was—
It wasn’t small.
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