Chapter 21 A Demonstration of Submission

The room wasn’t tense. It was ready to burn.

Ethan waited for her to flinch, to look away. She didn’t. She looked straight at him, shoulders back, chin high. Quiet steel in her eyes.

No words. None needed. The silence crackled.

Then she moved.

Fingers to the apron strings. One tug, and it hit the fl...

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