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CHAPTER 28

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~CASSIAN~

The room was quiet, but my mind wasn’t.

It had been hours since Dr. Ishola left, and longer still since Aria walked out of here without looking back. I hadn’t moved much. Just stood at the window, one hand resting on the sill, watching clouds roll across a sky that didn’t care what happened beneath it.

I picked up my phone and called Vaughn.

He answered almost immediately.

“Well, well,” he drawled. “Mr. Wolfe does return calls, eventually.”

“I need you to cancel the press conference.”

A pause. Sharp, then followed by a scoff. “What?”

“I’m serious,” I said, turning away from the window. “Call it off. Make a statement. Whatever it takes.”

Another pause - longer this time.

“Cass, the press conference is in less than twenty-four hours. We already pushed it once after the explosion. We can’t keep rescheduling without people asking questions.”

“I don’t care,” I said flatly. “Just cancel it.”

“What’s going on?” Vaughn asked, the humor in his voice giving way to something steadier.
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  • THE WOLFE LEGACY: HEIRESS OF THE EMPIRE   CHAPTER 63

    ~ARIA~Cassian finally moved away from the doorway, closing the distance between us with an unhurried grace only he could pull off. Then he sat across from me, loosened his tie further, and allowed his shoulders to settle like he was trying to shake off the weight of the world from it.The smell of my half-eaten pie which clung stubbornly to the air got instantly mixed up with a faint trace of his cologne that somehow managed to cut through everything. The fork in my hand hovered over the plate, but my appetite was long gone since the second he sat down. I glanced up at him swiftly then returned my gaze to my desk, then I began shuffling some of the papers that lay on it, pretending they needed sorting. I tried to fill the silence between us but my whole actions felt off.“You look… tired,” I finally said, my voice softer than I meant for it to be, but somehow it felt safer than admitting what I was actually thinking: You look like you’re about to undo me.He gave a quiet laugh, low

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