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"You've noticed it too, haven't you?" Alexander's voice was placid but the tautness of his gaze betrayed his unease.

Bernice looked up from the stack of papers she had been faking to read in the lounge of Rafael's company. "Noticed what?" she asked, but the sharpness told he surely knew exactly what Alexander meant.

Alexander let loose a deep sigh and leaned back into the doorframe