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Author: Ij Gabriel
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Ethan's POV

It started with a glance, which was a little longer than usual.

Jared was always suave and cool, even charming when necessary—but I saw it. The way he couldn't stop staring at Amelia when he didn't think anyone was paying attention.

And I was paying attention.

It angered me that his throat would bob up and down like a thirty man being denied water whenever she entered the room. I knew Amelia was not the kind of woman who would pay him any attention…

Or was she?

It would have been simple to dismiss it as paranoia—God knows I'd had a fair share of that creeping into my chest of late—but something was different now. Something wasn't right. Particularly after the account.

She was already showered when I saw her the morning after we returned home from the villa. I wasn't even out of bed when her face was strained as she pulled out the photocopied sheets.

"I found this in the corporate digital records," she'd whispered, pushing the folder along the table. "It isn't an easy thing
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