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Chapter 64: Stomp on romance.

Author: Diana Paris
last update Last Updated: 2025-07-30 07:08:09

When Christian’s text message comes in a few days later, my heart races, the same way it has since we started texting.

Christian Storm and I have been texting. And today’s text makes me feel like sinking into the ground.

"Come work for me at Storm Industries."

I stare at the message and let out the fiftieth sigh I have let out today.

The message isn't from Levi, because Levi doesn't own Storm Industries.

It's from Christian, and we text each other now.

My hand hovers over the three words I need to type and hit send on. Three words that would set me up for a smooth ride at the most prestigious groups of companies in the city, and a life working beside the most handsome man, at a well-paying job.

Three words would set me up for all of that, yet the moment I type them in, I delete them once again.

I can't send those three words in.

My bed dips as Estel comes to lie down beside me, and I watch as her eyes take in the message on the screen, take in the bleakness of my expression, and the d
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