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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?

was cold and distant, the next he

chill of his presence on her skin -cold and

power outage. Were

nowhere behind her, making

have

looked completely zoned

the passenger door and

the seat.

in behind the wheel, still watching her from the

You

down the window. “It’s just

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could freeze lava.

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

When the lights go

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

course, Julian had front-row seats

locked eyes

Graves, I-I’ll head up to the fifth floor. Take

a response and made a

That entire scene had

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

that day came, it would be Kaia, and he made a mental note to stay firmly on her good

acting like the most hopelessly smitten husband

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her and Lucien, but this was still the Graves Group elevator. If

Julian was silently

by his own wife,

a moment, he seriously wondered if he was going to

lips together, his face darkening slightly as he pushed

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