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Chapter 20: Office Rumors
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2025-09-26 04:15:06Celeste’s POV
The first whisper hit me like a gust of cold air.
It happened on the way to the break room a pair of junior associates paused mid-conversation when I walked past. The smile one of them had been wearing slipped into something tighter, something that said I know something about you.
I didn’t stop walking. I wasn’t going to give them the satisfaction. I poured myself coffee, ignoring how their voices picked back up the second my back was turned. I didn’t have to hear the words to know they were about me.
By mid-morning, it was everywhere.
Laughter that cut off too quickly when I entered a room. Side glances exchanged over computer screens. The receptionist at the front desk
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Vindication of the Cold CEO Chapter 20: Office Rumors
Celeste’s POVThe first whisper hit me like a gust of cold air.It happened on the way to the break room a pair of junior associates paused mid-conversation when I walked past. The smile one of them had been wearing slipped into something tighter, something that said I know something about you.I didn’t stop walking. I wasn’t going to give them the satisfaction. I poured myself coffee, ignoring how their voices picked back up the second my back was turned. I didn’t have to hear the words to know they were about me.By mid-morning, it was everywhere.Laughter that cut off too quickly when I entered a room. Side glances exchanged over computer screens. The receptionist at the front desk
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Vindication of the Cold CEO Chapter 16: Late Night Confessions
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Vindication of the Cold CEO Chapter 15 – Business Dinner
(Celeste POV)Today started like any other buried under files, emails screaming for replies, and Julian Sterling’s cold voice echoing in my head from the last time he’d said, “Don’t waste my time, Marshall.”Except today, I was not expecting to be summoned to his office at exactly 3:17 p.m.“Sit,” he said the moment I stepped inside, like I was a suspect in some corporate interrogation.I crossed my arms. “If this is about the shipment, I..”“It’s not,” he cut in, leaning back in that impossibly expensive chair like he owned not just Sterling Enterprise, but the air in the room. “I have dinner tonight. Business partners. You’re coming.”My brain froze. “Me?”“Do you see anyone else in this room?” His gaze flickered briefly to my blouse before returning to my face. That one millisecond was enough to make my heart trip over itself. “Six p.m. Sharp. Wear something… presentable.”I opened my mouth to argue to remind him I was an events planner, not his arm candy but he’d already shifted
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