When Love Comes Late by PASSION

Slater hugged her gently, his brow furrowing.

Meanwhile, Matthew stood nearby, deep in thought.

An hour later, the fire was out, but the studio was in ruins.

Devyn glanced around in panic at the mess before her, her voice shaking.

“What now? It’s all gone.

”

Slater tried to comfort her, saying, “The main thing is that everyone’s okay.

We can always redo those design sketches.

”

Devyn shook her head, her voice rough.

“All the sketches for the new series, except the orders, got wiped out completely.

”

Slater frowned and asked her, “What happened? Why did the studio catch fire out of the blue?”

looked troubled, feeling

“I’m clueless too.

from lunch,

cautious about fire safety, so this shouldn’t have

”

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stopped, gripping Slater’s

fire wasn’t

her, defending her, “It’s gotta be Stella! She’s

all eyes turned toward

on, her voice full of outrage, “Stella practically declared war on us

ideas kind of matched hers, and Bella picked Devyn’s

losing to us, so she

certain?” Matthew, silent until then, turned his

a chill as she met his

something Like that could get you in

”

parted her lips but chose

away, and then

into what caused

find out you’re wrongly accusing Stella,