Raina’s POV
The tension after Evan introduced himself didn’t disappear.
It spread.
Slowly.
Like smoke curling through a locked room.
I could feel it from where I stood beside the training dummy, clipboard balanced against my arm, gloves stretched tightly over my fingers.
Evan, meanwhile, remained completely unaware of the corporate death sentence hovering over his shoulder.
Which honestly made him either brave…
Or deeply unfortunate.
“So,” he continued casually, smiling at me with easy confidence, “do you always terrify trainees this elegantly, or am I getting special treatment?”
Lily coughed violently into her sleeve.
Not a real cough.
A girl-you’re-about-to-die cough.
I ignored her.
Mostly because if I looked at her, I would laugh.
And if I laughed, Harrison would somehow
