Chapter 96: Naked Truth
"I see…" Theo walked back into the room and closed it quietly behind him. The villa felt too small for what he was about to say.
"What do you see?"
This energy pressed against them like a living thing. Inside this house, the three of them were small and brittle and dangerously honest.
He didn't sit or try to run away.
Theo removed his vest first, slowly and carefully, like someone setting down a heavy thing he had carried for years.
The vest hit the armchair and made a small, final sound. Then he undid the buttons of his uniform shirt.
"Theo…?"
Fabric slid away from his skin. He folded the shirt and left it on the table as if it were an offering.
Danielle watched everything. Her breath came shallow.
She had seen him hurt and angry in a hundred different lights. She had never seen him like this, exposed in a way that had nothing to do with enemy bullets.
