a P
what route I took or whose voices I passed on the way. The office was quiet.
eside my keyboard. "You should drink somethi
it stopped there. It didn't reach anything deeper. I sat like that for the rest of the a
uldn't. It wasn't my home anymore. I drove int
ect launch. The last place on earth I wanted to be. But as the proje
m, I stared at my reflection
An armor of foundation, eyeliner, and deep red lipstick. I chose a simple black evening gown, elega
was immediately met with a barrage
r hand. "I have to admire your resilience, Ms. Osborn," she said wi
't drink it. "My job is to manage a project, Ms. Price, not to perform my emotions for your ente
She hadn't expecte
l over the room. Bryc
he picture of a powerful Alpha with his chosen mate. They moved through the roo
n he had left me for, accepting congratulations on a project
room. For a single se
who had once stood across from me at an altar and said words I had believed
ot because I was afrai
of my gut. I set my glass on a passing tray and traded it for
ldn't feel it yet. It was too small, too new, still a secret the rest of the world didn't know. But I knew. Every wave of
g at something Kyla had said, his head bent towar
s I should have said, smiled through dinners where I was invisible at my own table. Because I thought that was what a wife
ad seen me, and he h
was the heartbeat I carried beneath my hand. What mattered was the child who would never have to earn
sed. I straightened my spine, lifted my chi
ot leaving this job. I was not leavin
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