The Velvet Shadows: Les Ombres de Velours

The Velvet Shadows: Les Ombres de Velours

Maggi writes

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By day, Amélie Durand is a quiet secretary at Paris's most powerful fashion house. By night, she becomes Velour , a masked dancer whose movements tempt the city's elite and hide a thousand secrets. But when her two worlds begin to collide, the lies she's built start to crumble. Her enigmatic boss, Lucien Devereux, discovers the truth and turns obsession into a dangerous game of power. Meanwhile, Julien Moreau, a mysterious client, falls for both women , unaware they are one and the same. Caught between desire and deception, love and survival, Amélie must face the past that shaped her and the men who could destroy her. In a world where passion is currency and masks are protection, how much of herself will she lose to finally be free?

Chapter 1 The Secretary

Morning in Paris hums like a secret.

The streets glisten from the dawn rain, and the air smells faintly of coffee, perfume, and something unspoken.

Inside Maison Devereux, the rhythm is colder , polished floors, measured footsteps, smiles that cost more than sincerity.

I sit behind a glass desk, my reflection folded into the marble beneath me.

To everyone here, I am Amélie Durand: punctual, composed, perfectly unremarkable.

My world runs on schedules, silence, and the soft click of heels echoing down the hall.

Lucien Devereux appears without warning , the kind of man who doesn't need an introduction, only a presence.

He moves like command itself: crisp suit, quiet authority, eyes that could sign or sever futures.

"Miss Durand," he says, not looking up from the file in his hand.

"Yes, Monsieur Devereux."

"Coffee. Strong. Two sugars."

He walks away, leaving his cologne and command in the air.

I exhale only when he's gone.

Around me, the office buzzes with muted ambition , interns whispering, designers rushing, the clatter of luxury being born.

Yet beneath it all, there's a stillness in me that doesn't belong here.

As if part of me moves to a rhythm no one else can hear.

Sometimes, I think I chose this job for the silence , to disappear in routine, to pretend I belong in the light.

But some mornings, when the sunlight hits the glass just right, I see a different version of myself staring back , one I don't quite recognize.

She looks at me like she knows something I've forgotten.

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