◆◆◆ Chapter 3 ◆◆◆ Working for Alexander was torture.He was professional, distant, and perfectly proper. Called me Miss Bellrose in every meeting, every email, every casual hallway passing. Never touched me, not even a brush of shoulders in the crowded elevator, not a hand on my back to guide me through a doorway. Treated me exactly like every other employee on the team: competent, capable, utterly unremarkable.Which only made me think about that night more.I’d catch him watching me sometimes — across the conference table during a client call, or when I was presenting slides in the war room. His jaw would tighten with visible restraint, a muscle ticking under the silver-streaked skin, before he looked away. Once, passing a stack of reports across his desk, our fingers brushed, just the barest contact, and electricity shot straight up my arm. His eyes met mine for a fraction of a second: raw, barely controlled heat. Then he blinked, cleared his throat, and asked for the next quarter
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