Chapter 62

Jace’s POV

The morning after our late-night talk, Emily’s words clung to me like smoke that wouldn’t clear.

She had tried to put on a brave face when we parted ways, even laughed over pancakes, but I could see the exhaustion in her eyes, the cracks she didn’t want anyone to notice.

She was breaking under the weight Alex had dumped on her, and he didn’t even know it or worse, he did know and didn’t care.

That thought gnawed at me as I walked into the sleek glass building that housed the company’s headquarters.

I wasn’t an employee, didn’t even belong here, but my last name and my connections gave me enough weight to get past reception with a polite smile and a clipped, “I’m here to see Alexander Hasting. He’ll want to see me.”

The receptionist hesitated for a second before calling upstairs.

I didn’t miss the flicker of surprise in her eyes when whoever answered told her to let me through.

Good. Let him be surprised.

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