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FRACTURES IN THE MIRROR

Author: Grace Pearl
last update Last Updated: 2025-08-07 16:52:05

NATHANIEL – POV

I fire off the message like it is a damn formality, but I can feel the tension sitting in my spine as soon as it’s sent.

To: Kaia Hale

Subject: Ashen Cross Proposal Follow-Up

Kaia, Let’s finish what we started. I am available to meet today or tomorrow. Your call. Let us not drag this out.

Regards,

Nathaniel Cross

CEO, Cross Holdings

It is clean. Polished. Civil. But she hasn’t responded.

Not in ten minutes. Not in thirty. Not in over two fucking hours.

My thumb hovers over the screen. I refresh my inbox again. Still nothing. She has to have seen the message. It is her work line. She has to check them.

She is deliberately ignoring me

“Fuck this,” I mutter under my breath, yanking my blazer off the back of my chair and get to my feet, just as my phone begins to ring again

Sasha has been calling all morning but I ignore her. I ignore everyone.

I am not doing this dance anymore. I am going to Ashen myself.

The lobby is sleek. Too sleek. Everything feels sterilized and sil
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