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Shadows between us
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Previously
…“Okay,” she said, her voice a little steadier this time. “You can stay.” A faint shadow of what might have been relief touched Adrian’s face. He didn’t smile, but the tension in his shoulders eased, just a fraction. “Good,” he said, and the single word held more weight than she had ever heard a word carry before. The storm had passed. But the quiet that followed was not empty. It was filled with the unspoken, with the promise of something new, something more. And for the first time in a long time, Serena felt a flicker of hope that the shadows between them might finally begin to recede.