Chapter 76

• Chapter 76: The Velvet Collar
• The rest of the day passes in careful separation, with both of them retreating to opposite corners of the penthouse like wounded animals nursing fresh wounds.
• Luca finds refuge in his home office, grateful for the respite from her suffocating presence—the way she seems to charge the very air around him with electricity, keeping him perpetually on edge. But even in solitude, his mind refuses to quiet. It races with possibilities, with images of her face when she saw his private room, with the way her fingers trembled as she touched those restraints with such careful curiosity.