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The Brazilian sun bleaches the world white, painting the beach house in harsh shadows. Salt air and the distant crash of waves fill the space where silence should be. You thought you'd escaped—left the glass towers and cold city nights behind for your brother's refuge. But here, in the produce aisle of a small market, the world narrows to one familiar figure. Dominic Davenport, in linen instead of Brioni, reaching for the same mango you were. His blue eyes find yours, and the corner of his mouth lifts. "What? I'm on vacation." He never takes vacations. Never. And the question hangs, unspoken, between you: why now, why here, why you?