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Chapter 11: Business Tensions

I couldn't sleep.

The city lights sparkled through Marcus's penthouse windows, a constellation of artificial stars that did nothing to quiet my racing mind. His bed felt too empty, too cold without him, even though he'd only been gone for an hour. Board emergency, he'd
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