Semua Bab WIN ME, ATTORNEY: The Man I Should've Never Met: Bab 71 - Bab 74

She watched him settle into his routine, the familiar motions of a man in command. And yet, she noticed the delay just a fraction of a second before he started reviewing the reports on his desk. A pause that shouldn’t have been there. Her heart picked up. She shook her head. It’s nothing. You’re imagining it. But when she sat down, her pen hovering above a blank page, she couldn’t stop thinking about it. The missed lunches. The delayed messages. The carefully controlled interactions. The moments of silence that didn’t belong. They weren’t enough to prove anything, but they were enough to whisper. Enough to make her question, quietly, almost painfully, the narrative she had trusted for months. She tapped her pen against the notebook, a soft rhythm that barely disturbed the stillness of the office. She had survived worse lies than this. Or so she thought. Her eyes drifted toward his office door, closed as usual. She told herself one last time that she was overthinking, tha

Almost a conversation that stopped when she entered the room. Marco waved at her from across the hall, smiling with the same easy familiarity as always. Lily passed by, preoccupied, offering a distracted greeting. Everything appeared normal, and yet— There it was again. That pause. That careful recalibration of tone whenever Gabriel was mentioned. At lunch, someone referenced a file by name. A name that tugged at something in Yna’s memory. She asked, casually, “Who’s handling that now?” The response came too fast. “It’s already resolved.” Resolved. The word landed heavily, like a door closing. Yna smiled and changed the subject. She had learned when not to push. Pushing only made people defensive, and defensiveness led to silence. Silence, she could work with. By mid afternoon, she had convinced herself she was projecting. That was the simplest explanation. The safest one. There. Done. She had a history of overcorrection of seeing patterns where none existed,