Chapter 71I was elbow-deep in paperwork when I heard it—Christian laughing. Not the polite chuckle he used during formal meetings or the soft laugh I usually heard when we were alone. This was real laughter, the kind that made his whole body shake.I peeked through the crack in his office door.Christian sat sprawled in his desk chair, feet propped up on the edge of his desk like some kind of normal person instead of the uptight Alpha who usually sat with perfect posture. Marcus stood by the window, mid-story, gesturing wildly with his hands.“—and then Connor's tablet just flew out of his hands straight into the mud,” Marcus said, barely getting the words out through his laughter. “You should've seen his face.”“It contained three months of patrol data,” Connor protested from the couch, but even he was grinning. “Three months, Marcus.”“Should've backed it up to the cloud.”“I did back it up. That's not the point.”Christian's shoulders relaxed in a way I hadn't seen in… god, weeks?
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