Elsa’s POVI remember exactly how it started, the way his name caught in my throat.“Mr. Hartley,” I said, standing there in the lobby, pretending I wasn’t terrified. “I need to be clear about something.”He just looked at me, that cool, unreadable expression that made everyone else shrink back. I didn’t. Not that day.“I’m not interested in… whatever that dinner invitation was. I have three kids. I don’t date my boss. I don’t date, period.”I said it calmly, clipped, as if I controlled my voice; I could control everything else.He smiled, not a real smile, just that ghost of one he used when something amused him. “Noted,” he said.Then he leaned in just enough for me to smell his cologne, expensive, restrained, dangerous.“But I should warn you,” he said softly, like it was a secret meant only for me. “I’m persistent. When I want something, I tend to get it.”My breath caught.He didn’t sound threatening, but there was something about the certainty in his voice… the quiet promise in
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