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"What were you going to say?" Xavier Grayson pressed.

He'd brought all this up hoping she'd open up on her own. But she'd swallowed her words halfway through.

"Nothing."

Chloe Bishop didn't want to talk about it anymore.

Thinking back to how Adrian had curled up so obediently and gently in Hiba's arms made her chest ache. It was a hard feeling to describe—bitter, astringent, and deeply hollow