Aria's POVSomething in me changed.The old Aria might have backed down, the one before prison, before betrayal, before I learned how it felt to be caged like an animal.But cages change wolves.My arms folded across my chest. My gaze dropped to her.“Rose,” I said evenly, my voice calm in a way that made people uneasy. “Francis is rational. If you hadn’t overstepped again and again, he wouldn’t have made that decision. And as his assistant, your job when I arrived was to inform him, not decide things for him.”A beat passed, she actually shivered.My wolf felt it, her instinct reacting even if her pride didn’t.“I’m his assistant, not yours!” she snapped.She glared at me with naked hatred. “Do you know how hard he’s been working? Staying up all night on the drone project? If you cared, you wouldn’t burden him.”That one landed. Not like a wound, more like a pressure point. Because it was true. Francis always did too much, for everyone, for me.For a second, my wolf quieted, filled w
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