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Chapter Nine

Author: Olivia GW
last update Last Updated: 2025-07-01 16:14:10

Brandon’s POV

I’m sure I detected an undercurrent of hostility against me when I attended the meeting in Larysa Harris’s office. Her associate, Dylan Asquith, was certainly antagonistic toward me, even though he tried to hide it.

With Larysa, I’m not so sure, but when I popped my head out her office door and saw them locked in conversation down the hall, he had his hand resting on her shoulder.

The two of them were standing very close, conversing intimately in low voices. For some reason, it made me feel uncomfortable. Could it have been about me? Or were they hiding something?

I immediately suspected they might be a couple, which would explain their intimate conversation, and I felt a sense of loss at this possibility.

I couldn’t explain why, but I didn’t like the thought that she was already spoken for. However, Larysa was quick to deny this when I probed.

She seems to be an intense woman, prone to mood swings, because when we drove to the courthouse to bail Elena, her attitude was
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