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Chapter Fifteen

作者: Ellie Wynters
last update 最終更新日: 2025-04-12 15:34:48

Grace’s POV

By the time lunch rolled around, I was ready to scream. I hadn’t been able to focus all morning. Hunter had been in and out of his office, and we had hardly spoken. I had timed dropping off his morning coffee well. He had been on a call with the Asia office.

Currently, my inbox was full, my schedule stacked, but nothing I did could slow my racing thoughts. Everything about this day felt off, like I was standing on the edge of something I didn’t understand, and the ground was already shifting beneath my feet. Was it just last night or was it everything?

I knew now I had made a mistake moving in with them. But seeing Helena with that man... her lover had thrown me off balance. My need to tell Hunter to show him that Helena didn’t deserve the pedestal he had put her on conflicted with my need to protect him.

My morning was focused not on work but on my problems and how the hell I was going to get myself out of the shit pile I had landed myself in.

So, when Quinn texted me tha
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