MasukJocelyn's POV His hands slowly reached for my face. His eyes held a mix of emotions I couldn't read. I tried telling what was in his gaze but I couldn't. Just a couple of minutes ago, I wad fighting my head off just to see him and now he was standing before me, I couldn't speak. My heart was still racing fast from the shock and relief of setting my eyes on him. I really didn't he would stay or come for me. As his hands lingered on my face, I started to feel something different. A tingle of emotion that I'd never felt from him, not once in all the times we've spent together. My eyes slowly rose to meet his eyes, expecting that he'd break his gaze and deflect…maybe try to switch topics but he didn't do any of that. Instead, he kept his eyes fixated on mine. He didn't flinch, neither did he move his hands. My heart started to pick up the race again. I looked away for a bit, hoping that something would break me out of my imagination and tell me I was just dreaming but as much as I
Daniel's POV My mind was crowded with so much as I approached Jocelyn's room. I had no idea what to expect, I just needed everything to be over at that point. My ears caught loud noises coming from the room but it really didn't sound like her. I mean, why would an unconscious person be shouting so loud that I could hear outside? However, the closer i got to the room, the more the noise heightened. My brows furrowed in confusion. A part of me feared that something might be going on in the room but I couldn't force my body beyond its limit. I knew Jocelyn wouldn't raise her voice if it wasn't needed but I still couldn't shake off the thought that she was crying in pain. I pushed my tired body harder and rushed towards the door.I stepped in front of the door only to be met by sudden silence. I heaved a breath of relief, sucked in my breath one more time and pushed the door open. To my surprise, Jocelyn wasn't lying unconscious on the bed like I left her. She was sitting up, her
141. Jocelyn's POV First, it was my fingers then my eyes slowly fluttered open. The minute my eyes flashed open, a sharp sting of light hit me, instantly forcing my eyes close immediately. A sudden pang of pain coursed through my head like flash. A sharp cry of pain tore through my lips. The pain literally shot through every inch of my head. Within that split second, I could swear I saw my life flash right before my eyes. My breath hitched as I groaned to hold the pain in but it was really unbearable. My head was spinning so hard that I thought it might fall off my neck for a second. My hands gripped the piece of clothing nearest to my side as the pain became just too much to bear. I hissed angrily as the pain continued sizzling through my skin and nerves. For the next few minutes, the pain went on like that until I finally started to exhale and inhale really hard. Then I felt my body slowly return to stillness. However, I couldn't bring myself to ease my body as I was still sc
Daniel's PovI knew the moment she walked in that this was it, and there was no point pretending otherwise because the air between us had already shifted into something heavier than anything we had dealt with before. Jocelyn didn’t rush toward me and she didn’t contemplate either, and that alone told me she had already made up her mind about something before stepping into the room. The way she looked at me wasn’t confused and it wasn’t uncertain, and it carried a kind of quiet determination that made it clear she wasn’t here to guess anymore.She was here for the truth.I stayed where I was, not because I didn’t know what was coming, but because I had already decided I wasn’t going to avoid it this time. Running would have been easier in some ways, and deflecting would have bought me time, but neither of those options would have changed the outcome. She already knew enough to question me directly, and anything less than a real answer would only make things worse.So I waited.She stop
Jocelyn’s POVI didn’t sleep. I tried, at some point. I closed my laptop, leaned back, even turned off the light like that would somehow make everything calm, but it didn’t. The silence only made it worse. Every time I closed my eyes, the fragments came back, not as clear answers, but as unfinished thoughts that refused to stay quiet.So I stopped trying.By the time the first light filtered into the room, I was already dressed, already moving, already done pretending I could wait this out and let him come to me when he was ready.Because he wouldn’t.Daniel didn’t avoid things out of fear. If he believed something needed to stay buried, then he would keep it there, no matter what it cost.And right now, that cost included me. That was what pushed me out the door.I didn’t rush down the hallway, but I didn’t slow down either. I was going to meet Daniel. His space was at the far end.Now, It felt like a boundary I had already decided to cross.The guards outside nodded slightly when th
Daniel's pov I knew the moment it changed, and I didn’t need her to say anything for me to understand it.It was in the way she looked at me, in the way her eyes stayed on me a second longer than usual, and in the silence that followed when I chose not to answer her. Jocelyn had always been observant, and I had known that from the beginning, but this was different. This wasn’t just her noticing small shifts or reading between the lines. This was her putting things together, piece by piece, until she reached something that felt real enough to question.She didn’t know everything but she knew more than enough and that was where the problem started.I stood where I was, not moving, not speaking, and I let the silence stretch because there was nothing I could say that would change what she had already seen. The words I would say would only complicate it, and explanations would only raise more questions, and I wasn’t ready for that.I exhaled slowly, calming myself in a way that had becom
ETHAN’s POV“And she had the guts to tell me not to work on the design again. Sure, she said it in that fake nice tone but still. The people I’d taken my time to convince, how could she do this to me. She’s totally ruining my plans.” Clarissa whined and I nodded automatically.“Babe.” She called, s
JOCELYN’s POVDarius, the logistics head cleared his throat. “No matter how much or hard we work, I don’t think it will be possible for this show to hold next month. There are things that just cannot work. There are currently shipping delays, we have two key materials stuck in custom and I don’t th
JOCELYN’s POVI closed the meeting room door behind me and looked at the faces of the heads and representatives of all the teams involved in the fashion show preparation. It was obvious from their expressions that I had interrupted their conversation, or better put, gossip. I ignored them and went
DANIEL’s POVVictor Hale walked in, the file I’d sent to him in his hands and a panicked expression on his face. “What is this? What’s going on?” He asked, gesturing to the file.I put my hands under my chin. “Is it my job to explain what it means to you? Aren’t you the risk and compliance officer?







