~~Mira~~
I was sure I imagined it.
The way Evan looked at me, not just with irritation or suspicion this time.
I had just bent to retrieve a fallen folder beside my chair. When I rose, his gaze was on me. But when our eyes met.
Gone.
His expression snapped cold again.
But I’d seen it, or did I imagine it? The way his fingers stilled on the data pad. The muscle that twitched at his jaw. There was a storm behind those ice-colored eyes.
“Is there something wrong?” I asked quietly, unsure why I even said it.
He didn’t look at me. “Don’t flatter yourself young woman.”
“I wasn’t.”
“Good then.”
He pushed back from the table abruptly, grabbing a file from the desk and flipping it open as if I were no more important than the recycled air in the room.
I swallowed my pride. “I was only t
