RECLAIMING MY LIFE FROM THE UNTOUCHABLE CEO
Deedson this time the tears were mineif he had been with me plotbelated moonlight: he regretted only after i leftmy marriage makes me feel dead inside
"Hazel, move!"
I don't fully remember the next three seconds, only the strange, slowed clarity of adrenaline, the platform tilting beneath me exactly the way the investigator had warned it might if the sabotage triggered fully despite the reinforcement, the world narrowing to the sound of my own heartbeat and Julian's voice, and Julian's body colliding into mine hard enough to knock me clear of the falling rigging before I'd even finished turning toward his voice. I landed hard on the platform's edge, breath knocked from my lungs, the impact jarring up through my hip in a way that made the old fear flare bright and immediate, and looked up in time to see the support beam Penelope had paid to