The office was unusually quiet that afternoon, but Lily Carter still noticed the cracks in Alexander Knight’s perfect rhythm.Normally, Alex was a machine. Meetings stacked like dominoes, each one falling neatly into the next. Emails replied to in clipped, precise lines. Coffee sipped at the exact same point in the morning. A man of order. A man of control.But lately, something was… off.She’d catch him staring too long at the skyline, his pen hovering motionless above a document. Or the faint crease in his brow, deeper than usual, as if something invisible pressed down on him.At first, Lily thought she was imagining it. But the slip-ups grew.“Mr. Knight,” she said carefully that afternoon, flipping her notepad shut, “you just repeated the word ‘quarterly’ four times in the last thirty seconds. Which, don’t get me wrong, really hammers home your love for quarterly reports, but…” She tilted her head. “Do I need to call IT to reboot you?”His gaze snapped to hers, cold and sharp, but
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