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65: Oops

Author: Aria Wilde
last update Last Updated: 2025-06-23 20:17:59
Caleb’s pov

I’d seen Riley angry before—at rude clients, at pushy reporters, once at a malfunctioning espresso machine that dared to spill hot milk on her blouse—but I had never seen her like this.

And I’d seen her cry too. Quietly. Behind doors she didn’t think anyone noticed.

But this wasn’t that either.

This was something… sharper.

I stood at her office door, watching her shove files into a cardboard box with stiff, robotic movements. Her jaw was tight. Her eyes were rimmed red, but no tears came. She didn’t even acknowledge me. I knocked, even though the door was wide open.

She didn’t look up.

“Riley…”

She said nothing.

I stepped in. “What the hell happened…Did you really?”

She snorted—an ugly, bitter sound I’d never heard from her before. “Oh. Now you care.”

“Of course I care,” I said, voice low. “Jax just fired you in the middle of a meeting. I didn’t even know—”

“Exactly,” she said, cutting me off, slamming a drawer shut. “You didn’t know.”

Her voice cr
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