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last update Data de publicação: 2025-08-19 07:16:19

Chapter 24: Temptation Reigns

POV: Jamie

Jamie had avoided Julian for three days.

Three days of silence. Three days of cold professionalism. Three days of convincing himself that he could breathe without that man’s orbit pulling him in.

He hadn’t died. He hadn’t quit. He hadn’t even cried (much).

But God—it hurt.

Every time he passed Julian in the hall and caught a whiff of cedar cologne, every time he saw him at the head of a meeting in those perfectly pressed shirtsleeves, every time their ey
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