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Chapter Fifteen

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* Lawrence *

She looked familiar. The moment I walked into that conference room, I felt it, a tickle at the back of my mind, like a name just out of reach. Jana Salazar, her file said. But the face? The eyes? They stirred something. Not recognition exactly, but memory... elusive, shadowed, like the echo of a storm.

She stood poised in front of the window, back straight, chin high, the city at her back like she was already conquering it. There was a cold elegance to her, polished, professional, and yet... electric. Too composed. As if that stillness had been practiced, sculpted. Forged.

I'd seen hundreds, thousands, of applicants walk through these doors. None had that kind of presence.

That's why I was here. I never sat in on first-round interviews anymore. Not unless something about the application tugged. Her résumé was strong, sure, but it was more than that. There was a sharpness between the lines of her CV. A burn. Like she'd survived something, and used it.

The way she said "pos
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