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    Julius cut him off with a low, impatient bark. “Enough, Gavin. She and I are finished. Stop dragging her into this. The pills you gave me aren’t working–find me something else.”

    Gavin pulled a face that mixed resignation with dread. “Do you realize how many prescriptions we’ve already burned through?”

    There would soon be no medicines left to rotate; the pharmacy of hope was running dry.

    Everyone in the room knew the truth. Julius‘ insomnia was rooted deep in the mind. Only a cure of the heart could calm that restless night inside him.

    Julius‘ mouth barely moved. “Change.”

    Gavin exhaled, shoulders sagging. “Fine–I’ll change it.”

    Quinn could not hold back. “That’s it? You’re not going to run a full work–up? He’s been on medication for ages.”

    Gavin shook his head. “Every test has already been done. Julius‘ body is half–immune to drugs; what knocks out others barely grazes him.”

    Back in Doria, she had counted the pills lined up beside his ss–far too many for any single evening.

    “Isn’t there any kind of therapy to go along with the medication?” she pressed.

    Gavin nced at her, biting back the obvious reply. iThe /iibest /iitherapy /iiwould /iibe /iifor /iithis /iiwoman /iito /iistay /iiby /iiJulius/i‘ iside/ii; /iiher /iipresence /iiwould /iioutperform /iiany /iichemical /iicocktail/i.

    Julius seized Quinn by the wrist, drawing her closer only to push her away with words. “Stop fussing over me, and don’t you dare ipity /ime. You’ve seen I have a doctor. Now leave.”

    A chill of deliberate distance radiated from him, as if he were building invisible walls to keep her forever on the other side.

    “I just―” Quinn began.

    But he sliced through her sentence before it could form.

    “Just what? Are you about to confess you still love me, that you regret the breakup, that you’d crawl back into my arms?” The faint smile on Julius‘ lips was colder than snow.

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    Quinn’s voice failed her. Silence was the only answer she had.

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    “So, Quinn, if you don’t want a man like me clinging to you, stop worrying about me, stop feeling sorry for me.”

    His wordsnded like a b of granite on her chest, stealing the air from her lungs.

    That evening, Laura spotted Quinn sitting alone on the balcony lounge chair, gaze lost in the night sky. Laura lowered her voice. “What happened? Did meeting Julius igo /ibadly? Did he pressure you into something?”

    “No,” Quinn whispered. “I just-”

    Laura arched an eyebrow. “Can’t let him go, can you?”

    Quinn pressed her lips togetheri. /iiIs /iithis /iwhat iit means /iito /iibe /iiunable /iito /iilet /iigo/i? Julius‘ words at his mother’s grave kept reying, scene after scene.

    She kept wondering what storm of emotions had driven him to say that if he bothered her again, she should simply kill him.

    She knew too well what Julius‘ father had done to him. She knew the revulsion he felt, his desperate vow never to be that man.

    After his mother’s death, his father had spiraled into madness and cruelty.

    iAnd /iinow/ii, /iiafter /iiour /iibreakup/ii, /iidoes /iiJulius fear /iihe’s /iidestined /iito /iifollow /iithe /iisame /iipath/ii? /i

    “Yes,” she admitted atst. “It seems I really can’t let him go. I walked away from Trent Grafton without a backward nce, but Julius is different.”

    “That’s because Julius truly loves you,” Laura said. “He’s powerful, obsessive, and proud, but aside from dragging you to that ind, he’s never actually hurt you, not the way that b*stard Trent did.”

    Laura tipped her chin, her voice soft yet unyielding. “Julius flew you to the ind so you wouldn’t bolt to Celosia before the stitches even closed. And, Quinn, he summoned the entire Fane family back to Clusia–for you alone.”

    “With his power and status, if he really wanted to force you to be with him, there are plenty of ways he could hurt you, but he’s never used any of them.”

    Quinn lowered hershes. The faintest whisper left her lips. “Yes… He never used a single one of those methods.”

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    Laura’s gaze sharpened. “Tell me straight–are you and Julius truly past the point of no return? You once swore you could never trust him again. Is that still the absolute truth?”

    “I-“The word snagged in Quinn’s throat. For one breathless moment she had no idea how to

    answer.

    iIf /iiI /ireally couldn’t trust him, why iwas /iiI /iiso /iicertain /ihe iwouldn’t /iihurt /iime /iwhen he asked ime /ito iapany /iihim/i?

    Laura exhaled, a weary sigh that seemed to carry years of wisdom. “Jealous hearts see no grit in the eye, and shattered trust is hard–hard, not impossible–to rebuild. Ask yourself what you truly feel for Julius, and whether he is still worth that risk.”