The hallway was quiet. Too quiet.
Celeste stood there, her hand still on the doorknob while her heart pounding from the way Damien had walked away last night. His voice still echoed in her ears.
“If I give in, we’d both lose.”
“ What could he have meant?”
As he stood so close his breath brushed against her skin, sending heat through her. And just like that, something inside her shifted, like a wall deep in her mind that quietly gave way. Like he wasn’t just Damien Knight, the cold billionaire with too many secrets. He was something else, something almost… reachable.
But then he left. Just like that. Like always.
Celeste exhaled shakily and turned away from the door.
She needed to stop chasing answers from him.
She needed to find her own.
Her mind went back to the chest—the old wo
