Chapter 4: The Confrontation
He found her waiting exactly where he had left her.
Under the same lights.
But she was no longer the woman he had dismissed.
She stood calm, composed, untouchable.
“You…” he started, his voice shaking. “What did you do?”
Isabella met his gaze.
“I stopped protecting you.”
Silence stretched between them.
“You used me,” he said bitterly.
“No,” she replied softly. “I believed in you.”
She stepped closer, her voice steady.
“You had everything, Marcus. Loyalty. Partnership. Love. And it still wasn’t enough.”
His anger faltered.
“What happens now?”
She looked past him, toward the hotel.
“Now,” she said, “you learn the difference between power you borrow… and power you earn.”
Then she turned away.
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And for the first time in his life—
Marcus had nowhere to go.
