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Chapter 24

Author: Onyx
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-09-03 07:24:08

Ivy's pov

The silence in Liam’s study was different from the rest of the penthouse. I thought it was impossible but the air here is sharper and colder.

It smelled faintly of leather and old wood, it looked like the kind of room that belonged to a man who wanted to look like he had his life perfectly together.

I absolutely wasn’t supposed to be here.

But I needed a document for tomorrow’s investor meeting. It was a signed paper Liam had forgotten to send over. When I asked him where it was, he didn’t even glance up from his laptop, he just replied,

"In the study. Bottom drawer, probably. Go look yourself".

There were clear lines. There was his space and my space. That had been the rule since day one. But of course, Liam Calloway never made things easy.

I moved carefully through the shelves, my heels sinking into the thick carpet. Papers were stacked neatly on the desk, books lined in perfect symmetry. And then..... tucked in between leather-bound files, I saw something out of place.

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