Todos los capítulos de Tempting My Ex's Alpha Uncle: Capítulo 11 - Capítulo 15

FREYA'S POVThe report was due at ten. I’d blocked out the morning for it two days in advance, checked the calendar Sunday night before bed to be sure, and walked in Monday assuming I had until ten to finish it.At nine-fifteen, Garrick appeared at my desk holding a printout. “Where’s the Q3 vendor summary.”“It’s not due until ten. I’ve still got.......”“It moved to nine.” He set the printout down in front of me, and there it was, right there on my own calendar, the entry showing the deadline shifted back an hour, with a timestamp from Friday afternoon that I never saw. “Which means it was due fifteen minutes ago, and Whitmore’s people are asking why they don’t have it.”“I never got a notification for the change.”“The system sends one automatically.”“Then it malfunctioned, because I didn’t see it.” My voice came out tighter than I wanted it to, defensive in a way that probably made me sound guiltier than I was. “I can have it finished in twenty minutes, it’s basically done, I jus

FREYA'S POVThe stairwell was the one place on the floor without cameras pointed directly at the door, which I hadn’t paid attention to once, until Silas stepped out of it in front of me on my way down to the mail room, blocking the exit like he’d been waiting there for me.“You’re avoiding me.” He said it flatly, no charm left in it this time, none of the manipulative softmness he’d tried by the elevators. “Every time I come up here you disappear before I can finish a sentence.”“I’m working.” I stepped to the side to go around him. He mirrored my movement, closing the gap I’d tried to create and standing so close enough now that the stairwell felt smaller than it had a second ago.“I heard Raiden had me pulled from the Whitmore account.” His voice had an edge under it I recognized from the worst nights of the last four years. The tone that came right before he said things he was going to regret. “You know how that looks. My own uncle cutting me out because his secretary complained.”

Gossip travels faster on that floor than even official information in Ravenscroft Holdings, and by the time I got back from lunch on Monday, it was clear the whole department already knew I was flying to Meridian with Raiden before I’d even told Talia.Catherine found me by the printers. “I heard you’re going to Meridian.” She said it lightly and conversationally, as if she was talking about the weather, but her eyes were doing that slow, assessing sweep they always did like trying to figure something out. “Two days. Overnight.”“It’s a work trip.” I said, focused on picking my printed sheets fro the tray and not meeting her gaze. I refused to give her the satisfaction of a reaction. “There's a staffing review before the renovation sign-off.”“Of course there is.” Her smile didn’t move past her mouth, same as always. “You know, it’s funny. Raiden’s only ever taken one assistant on a property trip in the four years I’ve worked here. Her name was Priya. She lasted about six months after