~Reo’s~

“This house is too damn quiet when she’s not crying.”

Reo shuts his phone off mid-call. His jaw is clenched, his breath uneven. He can still hear the tail end of Blair’s voice warning him about another investor backing out unless someone—someone—clears up the tension within the empire. He doesn't respond. He just stares down the hallway like the silence might swallow him whole.

The Cuss family mansion used to be his place of strategy, command, order. Now it’s a damn battlefield full of ghosts and tension and unfinished grief. And lately… her.

Jennie’s been staying here more often now. At first, it was Leo’s idea, or maybe her...