Chapter 170

Nathan's POV

I’m trying to pretend like I care about this meeting. I’ve got the numbers in front of me, a pen in my hand, and a look on my face that probably reads like interest, but the truth is I haven’t heard a damn word in the last ten minutes. Everything sounds like static. Useless talk. Sales targets, adjusted projections, mergers, all of it bleeding together into a blur of corporate noise I couldn’t give less of a shit about.

All I can think about is her.

Harper.

She’s probably in the kitchen by now, maybe wrapped in Theo’s shirt, maybe curled into his lap. I wonder if she’s smiling. If she’s got that lazy warmth in her eyes, the kind that says she’s happy, the kind that makes something tight and tender pull deep inside my chest. I shouldn’t want to walk out of this meeting just to see her. I shouldn’t be th