Chapter 193

felt like I’d changed, inside and out. My eyes were shining again. Instead of getting lost in my own feelings, I was talking shop with my coworkers, way more interested in work than my personal drama

Being out in the world and meeting all kinds of people, I finally understood that looks really mattered. Whenever I talked to guys, they’d instantly turm into perfect gentlemen, voices dropping a notch.

When I got back to the office that afternoon, I was wiped out from a work of traveling, but it was just my body that was tired. My mind and heartfelt refreshed.

All those new experiences and lessons made it feel like my soul had been uplifted. When I saw a flower in full bloom, I could just appreciate its beauty. instead of worrying about how quickly it might fade, twasn’t depressed anymore.

That afternoon, we had an important meeting Harmonia Hotel was getting renamed again, this time to something more evocative and romantic. The new name would be decided right there in the meeting.

I was sitting in the third seat at the table. When the office door swung open, I turned my head and saw Jared walk in.

It had been a while since I’d last seen him. Dressed in a gray–blue shirt, he looked simmer and somehow even more attractive than before.

When he glanced my way, his eyes lingered on me for a couple of seconds before he took his place at the head of the table. “Let’s get started,” he said, his

tone cool and detached

you take this one?” one of the execs said, sounding a bit on edge. Maybe it was the pressure from Jared, but he clearly didn’t want to be the one up there, so he smoothly pushed

guess it made sense. Being Jared’s wife

if I was really up to running this meeting. In

shy to ever step

the

in front of him, occasionally flipping through them. He hardly glanced at

and the other two execs kept quiet, nodding when they agreed, and only chiming in with a couple of short remarks when

all started packing up to leave. I was gathering my papers, about to head

“Victoria, could you stay for

like they thought we were about to do something we shouldn’t in the conference

wanted to ask him what he wanted, but Jared

door open. Now that he’d closed it, it’d be even harder to explain

gaze hard to read. “Wasn’t all

head. “Nope Honestly, I

a great job with the

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