Liam’s POV
The office was quiet, but the silence was nothing like calm. It was heavy, charged with the tension that had been building for months, a tension that no one else could feel but me — and her. Sadie Reed. Professional, disciplined, poised… and utterly impossible to ignore.
I watched her across the room, the way she shifted slightly while reviewing documents, the subtle tightening of her jaw, the faint rise and fall of her chest as she breathed. Every movement was deliberate, controlled, precise — and yet beneath it all, I could feel the storm of desire, the pull, the undeniable heat simmering just under the surface.
The gala had been a catalyst. The proximity, the subtle touches, the stolen glances — it had awakened something in both of us. Something dangerous, magnetic, imposs
