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34. This changes everything...

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ELOWEN

The door had barely clicked shut when the silence turned heavy. The faint scent of cedar and bergamot still lingered in the air, an echo of his presence that refused to fade.

Something was off. I felt it. The way his voice dropped before he left, the way his jaw had tightened and the tension on his shoulder — it wasn’t nothing…

But hey, why should I care, right? We're just work partners and not lovers for me to care about to this extent!

Wait, but he had done things a normal partner wouldn't do, hadn't he? How were you able to decline that, Elowen?

“Ugh!” I groaned out. The silent yet chaotic battle in my conscience just wouldn't leave me alone!

I tried to focus, indeed I did, but the unease crawled under my skin more each time I tried to shake it off.

The vials in front of me blurred. My fingers shook as I measured out a drop of sandalwood, then spilled half of it. “Great. Just great.” I huffed. “Real professionalism.”

Even with Adrian, who was my husband and I had all my
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