Sadie’s POV
The office felt smaller tonight, more intimate, every corner of the room charged with tension I could almost taste. The day’s work had been long, the schedules meticulously reviewed, the final details of the evening event carefully planned. But none of that mattered anymore. Not when Liam Blackwell was standing so close that I could feel the heat radiating from him, that I could hear the faintest hitch in his breathing.
My pulse raced uncontrollably, my chest tight with anticipation, and for the first time, I realized just how fragile the boundaries we had clung to were. They weren’t just blurred anymore—they were gone. Shattered. Destroyed.
I tried to focus, to force myself to glance at the papers in front of me, to keep my mind anchored in logic, in professionalism. But th
