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engine. “By the way, what happened with the elevator during the outage?”

“It wasn’t a big deal,” Kaia said, turning to look out the window. “Mr. Rhodes was in there too. He called Engineering. They fixed it quickly.”

Julian again? This guy is everywhere!

Jude’s expression tightened.

Why was that guy always hovering around her? Didn’t Jude just give him a warning?

“And it was just the two of you?” he asked, trying to sound casual.

Kaia paused and then answered with a straight face, “Yep. Just

us.”

She didn’t mention Lucien. The last thing she needed was Jude jumping to more conclusions.

And just like that, their misunderstanding deepened.

They drove in silence for a while. As the car pulled into the underground garage, Jude finally broke, “Kaia, why don’t you just meet that prosecutor I mentioned?”

Kaia sighed. “Jude… no, thank you.”

Jude’s stomach sank.

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Kaia sprinted into the garage, breathing hard. Her heart was still pounding.

What was wrong with Lucien?

distant, the next he was pulling her into his arms

chill of his presence on her

a power outage.

came out of nowhere behind her, making

you have

“Did I? You looked

quickly opened the

the seat.

climbed in behind the wheel, still watching her from

warm? You look like you’re

rolling down the window. “It’s just the weather. Feels like it’s going

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look that could freeze lava. “What

retreating figure disappear around the corner. Something in his expression

the lights go

feel the warmth of her body, the scent of her skin clinging to his shirt. Almost involuntarily, he lifted his

had front-row seats to all of

two men locked eyes in stunned

I-I’ll head up

response and made a beeline for

scene had

very real sense that, someday, he might actually die because of something

would be Kaia, and he made a mental note

now acting like the most hopelessly smitten

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was still the Graves Group elevator.

Julian was silently screaming. He had

ground by his own wife,

moment, he seriously wondered if he was going to be assassinated just for

darkening slightly as he

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