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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

of his presence on her skin -cold and

was a power

out of nowhere behind her, making

Do you have to creep up on people like that?

You looked completely zoned

Kaia quickly opened the passenger

the seat.

in behind the wheel, still watching her from the corner of his eye, Something about her

warm? You look like

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

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look that could freeze lava.

around the corner. Something

the lights go out,

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

of course, Julian had front-row seats to all of

locked eyes

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

wait for a response and made a

scene had

very real sense that, someday, he might

be Kaia, and he made a mental note to stay firmly on

like

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the Graves Group elevator. If anyone else saw them, it’d be a

silently screaming.

Lucien being shoved to the ground by his own wife,

was going to be assassinated just for seeing all

his face darkening slightly as he pushed