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Chapter 6

Author: HoneyPen
last update publish date: 2026-05-11 04:07:39

Eden’s POV

I should’ve kept walking.

That was the smart thing to do.

Walk out. Get into the elevator. Pretend none of it happened.

Pretend I hadn’t just walked into my own conference room and found the woman who had been living rent free in my head for weeks. Wearing a wedding ring.

With a husband.

And a child.

The elevator doors slid shut behind me.

Too slow.

Too fucking slow.

My jaw tightened as I stabbed the button for my floor harder than necessary.

Married.

The word sat ugly in my chest.

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