Chapter 40
~ Navine ~
My heart stopped at the sound of that knock.
Three sharp raps against the door. Deliberate. Aggressive. The kind of knock that demanded attention.
Then her voice.
"Sir? It's Hailey Frederick. I need to speak with you."
Fuck.
I froze at my desk, my hand suspended over the keyboard where I'd been pretending to work for the past twenty minutes. Pretending, because my mind had been anywhere but on the reports in front of me.
She was here. Already. It wasn't even seven in the morning and she was already here, on my floor, outside my door.
I'd known this might happen.
But I'd convinced myself she wouldn't actually show up. That she'd cool down overnight, realize the three-month severance was generous, and just... go away. Move on. Find another job. Disappear from
