POV: Julian
Her profile photo was three weeks old. She was smiling, he had never seen her smile like that at Sterling.
Julian sat in his penthouse at midnight. The apartment was dark except for the glow of his laptop screen. His knuckles were still bandaged from where he had punched the wall. The crack in the drywall had not been repaired.
He had told himself he wouldn't do this that he would let her go.
He had typed her name into the search bar anyway.
Maya Reyes,Aldridge & Associates ,Senior Consultant.
Her profile photo was new. She was wearing a blue dress—not the ivory column dresses she wore at Sterling, something softer, something that made her dark eyes look warm. Her long black hair was down, it was a loose waves instead of the severe bun.
She was smiling.
Not the polite s
