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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?

moment he was cold and distant, the next he was pulling

of his presence on her

I heard there was a power outage. Were you

of nowhere behind her,

turned around with a start. “God, Jude. Do you have to creep up

I? You looked

the

the seat.

her from the corner of his eye, Something about her

you warm? You look like you’re

just the weather.

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look that could freeze lava.

Kaia’s retreating figure disappear around the corner. Something in his

time… When the lights go out, the

scent of her skin clinging to his shirt. Almost involuntarily, he lifted his hand to

Julian had front-row seats to all of

men locked eyes

shivered. “Mr. Graves, I-I’ll head up to the fifth

wait for a response and made a

That entire scene

someday, he might actually die

when that day came, it would be Kaia, and he made a

now acting like the most hopelessly smitten husband in the

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Julian probably knew about her and Lucien, but this was still the Graves Group elevator. If anyone else

Julian was silently screaming. He

being shoved to the ground by his own wife, inside an elevator no

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

face darkening slightly as

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