Reid
The hum of the city filtered through the tinted windows of my office, a distant, familiar rhythm. Inside, everything was as it should be—pristine, controlled, efficient.
My desk was stacked with reports. My inbox, flooded with unread emails. The world hadn’t stopped moving while I was in Bali, and now it was time to catch up.
And yet I hadn’t even been back for 24 hours, and already, my mind was elsewhere.
On her.
On the way she had barely unpacked, the way she buried herself in editing wedding clips like her life depended on it. The way she kept avoiding something neither of us wanted to name.
I clenched my jaw, pushing the thought aside.
It was time to focus. I had an empire to run.
By 8:00 AM, my conference room was packed. Board members. Department heads. The people who ma
