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Chapter 37: The Almost Kiss

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The project deadline was midnight. Our restraint lasted until 10:00 PM.

NeXus Gaming Studios was a ghost town. The rows of desks were dark, the monitors sleeping black squares, the usual hum of activity replaced by the low, rhythmic thrum of the HVAC system.

Only one office was lit.

Inside the glass walls of the executive suite, Noah and I were waging war against a narrative branching bug that threatened to delay the Aether expansion launch.

"It's in the dialogue tree," I muttered, rubbing my eyes. "The flag isn't triggering for the 'Betrayal' ending."

"It's not the tree," Noah argued, leaning over my shoulder to point at the code on my screen. "It's the state machine. Look at line 4052."

He was too close.

He had discarded his suit jacket hours ago. His white dress shirt was unbuttoned at the collar, the sleeves rolled up to his elbows, revealing forearms that I had spent far too much time staring at during our prenatal classes.

As he pointed at the screen, his chest brushed against m
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