ed both hands over her m

rality. "I never mix private matters with company decisions. Telling you is simply encouragement for a subordin

politely, hopped out of the car with a spring in her step, and waved goodbye on the sidewalk, her mind already spinning with cal

e and spent two hours in the kitchen kneading dough and chopping spinach to

to text Chloe a photo of her cooking. When she exited the chat screen,

d back at her from the screen, accompanied by a short message:

ng to steal her appetite. After staring at the screen for three seconds with cold fingertips

exys clicked into the lobby of the Knight Enterprises skyscraper in her heels forty minutes before clock-in, ca

and froze. Standing directly in front of the polished mirror wall was Evan, dressed i

to the corner of the car and bowed h

t floral scent of her hair mingling with roasted espresso. Right before the ele

tes better half-swee

van followed unhurriedly a few paces behind. Both sides of the floor were still completely empty, making them the earliest arrivals in the entire skyscraper. Watching her poi

-Team-Dorian Lloyd, a fellow Texas native with a loud, fiercely loyal personality-pushe

crowd around them, Dorian immediately launched into juicy morning gossip about the mar

sk partition. "Anyway, how was Aspen? Sitting across from Mr. Knight's god-tier face f

from her screen. "We worked overtime until midnight eve

a vow of celibacy n

loser, she reached out without warning, hooked her index finger under Alexys's

er, a dark, unmistakable reddish-purple ma

spreading across her face. "Well, well, well...