All Chapters of Yesterday’s Mistake, Today’s Boss: Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

Vincent’s POV“Our promotion list is out,” Mr. Donald’s voice rang through the office, cutting through the usual hum of keyboards and whispered conversations like a blade.I froze.My hand paused mid-air over the trackpad, and I stared blankly at my screen. My heart lurched inside my chest, then began pounding so hard I could hear it in my ears. This was it. The day I had envisioned a thousand times, sometimes during long walks home, sometimes while lying awake in bed wondering if the sacrifices were worth it.I stood slowly, fingers tightening around the edge of my desk, grounding myself. After all these years of giving everything, every ounce of creativity, strategy, late nights, early mornings, and missed relationship moments, this had to be it. My moment. The one where I finally stepped out from the shadows and became Head of Strategy at Ascend Global, the leading tech company in London. Mr. Donald, impeccably dressed as always in his grey suit and burgundy tie, held a stack of c

Ethan’s POVI couldn’t take my eyes off him. Vincent, sitting there, his once-perfectly tailored suit now slightly disheveled, his shirt collar unbuttoned just enough to reveal the tightness of his neck. His jawline, still as sharp as I remembered, caught the dim light of the bar. Every detail of his face was the same. The same intensity in his eyes, that familiar flicker of a man too proud to show weakness, but hiding so much inside. He hadn’t changed. Not on the outside, at least.But I could tell something had shifted beneath the surface. His usual charm was gone, replaced by something else, a quiet anger, a frustration that filled the space between us. He wasn’t the same man I remembered from college. The guy I shared rooms with, laughed with, and drank away long nights with was gone. But even with the years apart, I couldn’t deny how he still looked at me like he had back then, just without the words.For a moment, I thought he might speak. Maybe call my name, or at least acknowl