ROSE POV
My grip tightened around my phone, my eyes widened, and I swore my heart stopped beating for a second.
The text had halted my not-so-friendly conversation with my mother's control-freak of a boyfriend.
“Meet me in my office in the next five minutes,” my boss, Charlotte's text read.
“I'm screwed,” I mouthed. There was no way in the seven hells I could run home, change, and hurry to the office within five minutes. Not unless I possessed the power of Flash.
I didn't, which made me panic more.
“Is something wrong?” The gravelly voice sliced through the deafening silence and twisted my gut.
The kind of effect his voice had on me was terrifying.
I inclined my gaze to stare into those rich dark eyes before I shoved my phone into his face. I watched his left eyebrow kick up; his
