Chapter FiveMirabel’s POVBy the time I reached my desk, my hands were already trembling, and no amount of controlled breathing could steady them because my body was reacting faster than my mind could keep up with what had just happened in that elevator. Seeing Maxwell Mackenzie again after everything felt unreal, like my memory had stepped out of my head and taken physical form, solid and unavoidable, standing inches away from me with eyes that saw too much.I sat down and forced myself to focus on the screen in front of me, but the words blurred together no matter how hard I tried, my thoughts looping endlessly back to the way he had said my name, not cold, not angry, but deliberate, as if speaking it had weight.We will need to talk.The sentence echoed in my skull like a warning.I tried to remind myself that this was my job, that I was just another human employee buried deep in a department no Alpha ever bothered with, that one mistake during a festival did not suddenly give him
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