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    She wondered if he had heard part of her conversation.


    A ripple of unease passed through her as her thoughts scrambled. She opened her mouth, ready to say something, but his low voice cut in first—quiet and weighty.


    “Linsey,” he said, voice low and raw, “tell me.”


    The simplicity of the words struck like a whip, the undertone sharp with usation and uncertainty. She froze, a chill running down her spine.


    Her disguise was gone. There was no mask hiding her face. Even with all the carefully applied makeup, anyone who had truly known her would recognize her, let alone Collin.


    She straightened, steadying her voice into something cold andposed. “What do you mean?”


    Collin’s gaze darkened, every word that followed thick with restrained emotion.


    “Are you with Gorman now?” he asked, his voice cracking slightly, as if each syble cost him.


    Snapped back to the present by those words, Linsey couldn’t help but find the entire situation absurd.


    A smile yed on her lips, heavy with irony.


    “Collin,” she said, addressing him directly for the first time in years.


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    Collin’s eyes welled up, emotion brimming as he struggled to hold back tears.


    “Linsey, it’s really you. I knew it was you.” Ovee with emotion, he stepped toward her, his voice brimming with hope. “You’ve trulye back.”


    Instinctively, Linsey stepped backward, creating distance between them. Her voice was frosty, her demeanor distant as she responded, “We’ve been divorced for four years. My current rtionships are no longer your concern, are they?”


    Linsey reflected on the fact that Collin had just spent 2.7 billion on the Star of the Desert for Haven, clearly indicating where his affectionsy. During her four-year absence from Grester, Collin, as the founder of CR Corporation, was inevitably surrounded by many sessful and appealing women.


    She was convinced that had she not returned unexpectedly, Collin might well have erased her from his memory.


    The audacity of him now, questioning her about her personal life, struck her as both ironic and ludicrous.


    As these thoughts ran through her mind, her eyes glowed with the threat of tears, yet she sternly repressed them. She refused to let Collin affect her any longer and was determined to do everything she could to move on from him.


    But Collin was persistent, his voice a soft but firm plea. “You haven’t answered my question, Linsey. Are you with Gorman now? Did you really spend these past four years together?”


    “Yes,” Linsey responded coldly, without a moment’s pause.


    She maintained her poise, determined not to give herself away. “I’m with Gorman now. Does that answer your question?”


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