For Camilla, the morning after the ballroom encounter felt like waking up in a reality whose physics had permanently shifted. Every muscle in her body carried the sweet, lingering ache of Julian's touch—the memory of his rough hands grasping her waist, the bruising heat of his mouth, and the devastating revelation of his unshielded soul beneath the Steinway grand piano. She had spent a lifetime guarding her heart behind layers…
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