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The mansion felt like a lavish cage as well as an open field as I slipped through the heavy doors, well after midnight. The quiet click of the latch echoed in the vast entryway, like a guilty secret I couldn't escape. The space was dimly lit, illuminated only by the soft amber glow of a lone lamp in the living room and the scattered lights of New Athens's skyline filtering through the floor-to-ceiling windows.
It turned the polished marble floors into shimmering pools of gold, casting long shadows across the modern furniture. I went in with rumpled suit and tousled hair. My heart raced from the confrontation at the Eclipse, with Elias's ultimatum hanging over me like a knife on a thin thread, twenty-four hours to decide whether to betray everything or watch it all fall apart.
Shit...it literally felt like I was caught between the devil and blue sea. So this was what it felt like.
