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Chapter 55

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ELLE

I couldn’t focus.

The meeting notes on my desk blurred into meaningless lines of text, the words swimming until they made my head ache.

For the past hour, I had stared at the same page, pretending to work while my thoughts spiraled elsewhere.

Raymond’s aunt’s call replayed in my mind, her warm voice asking him to attend the annual celebration in our hometown. Havenbrooke.

The word still made my stomach twist.

It couldn’t be a coincidence—him calling me Nuella, him slipping it out like a name he was familiar with, like he had known me far longer than I realized. The possibility gnawed at me until I felt like I was unraveling inside.

I pushed my chair back with a scrape and stood abruptly, the weight of my thoughts pressing down on me.

My legs carried me in restless circles around the office, each step echoing the storm brewing inside my head.

My fingers brushed over the edge of the polished desk, the leather-bound chair, and the shelves lined with carefully arranged books and f
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