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Chapter 57

Author: Maya Adams
last update Last Updated: 2025-11-25 00:06:48

Lilith’s POV

I tried so hard over and over again to bury myself in work, but the numbers on my screen kept blurring into shapes that made absolutely no sense. Every single attempt I made to focus collapsed under the same weight pressing against my ribs: It's been Two days. Two days since I had set my eyes on Cassian after he had called me. Two days since his warning about policemen showing up. Two days since the actual officers arrived on our doorstep asking questions that Nolan and I barely escaped answering.

Two days, and yet no single sign of Cassian.

I blinked hard and forced myself to sit up straight in the boardroom, where a meeting with the directors was already going downhill. Nolan sat across from me, trying to salvage what little order remained, but even he looked exhausted. Everyone kept talking over one another passing complaints about delays, numbers not aligning, sudden holdups in operations. The energy in the room felt like it was fraying at the seams.

“Let’s go over t
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