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Chapter 8: Crack in Authority

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Nathans POV

I sat in my luxurious office looking at a complicated financial report of Sweet Body one of my most profitable businesses on my desk .

Yet my mind refused to stay on the figures.

It drifted back to the church.

Her face surfaced without warning, pale, composed, heartbroken, carefully tucked behind calm eyes. The way she’d stood there, fragile yet unbowed, as if the world had knocked her down and she had refused to beg it for mercy.

Before I could apologize, she had walked out in annoyance.

Apologies were rare treasures to me. I didn’t give them easily. Power had taught me that words like sorry weakened authority. Still, the urge to say it had surprised me. And it unsettled me even now.

I had always believed people’s problems especially women’s were rooted in money. That was why I did what I did.

But she hadn’t looked at me like a savior.

She hadn’t looked at me at all.

She’d been wrapped in her own pain, carrying it with a quiet grace that had no business being so compelli
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