Sadie’s POV
The office was unusually quiet, almost eerie in its stillness. The hum of the air conditioning and the distant clatter of a cleaning crew were the only sounds breaking the silence, but they did nothing to calm the storm inside me. Every glance I stole at the clock, every tap of my pen against the desk, every careful adjustment of papers felt amplified, like a countdown to something inevitable. Something I wasn’t sure I was ready to face.
Liam had been in the office earlier, commanding attention as he always did, yet today he seemed… different. His movements had a sharper precision, a subtle intensity that made my chest tighten. Every time I thought about him, every memory of our proximity, our brushes of hands, the faintest touch during the gala, I felt a rush of heat that wa
