Cary quickly shrugged off his jacket and crouched to drape it over Vanessa’s naked body.Vanessa was in full meltdown, sobbing, yelling, demanding my head.‘Hyacinth, get out!’ Cary roared.Finally snapping out of his shock, Miles rushed to my side. ‘Are you all right?’I clenched my jaw, my eyes swimming with tears I refused to shed. ‘Cary, you make me sick.’I shook off Miles’s helping hand. My legs could barely hold me, but I forced myself to walk away with whatever dignity I had left.As the door swung shut, I heard Miles say to Cary, ‘Boss, I think she’s really hurt her back in that fall…’Then the door clicked closed.***‘Portia, I don’t think I can last another twenty hours, let alone twenty days. I just... I can’t stand the sight of him anymore,’ I whispered into the phone, huddled in the corner of the lift and barely holding it together. My voice shook, threatening to break.I couldn’t go back to my team looking like this, physically hurt and emotionally shattered, so I bit d
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