Chapter 5: The Beautiful Lie

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POV: Fiona My hand hovered over the cold brass doorknob. My heart was slamming against my ribs so hard I thought it might crack them. "Sit down," Maxwell Jordan said. His voice wasn't loud, but it filled the massive office. I looked at the man sitting behind the giant desk. He was the monster who had grabbed me at the club. He was the reason I had been fired, the reason I had spent the last three weeks eating nothing but cheap noodles, terrified of losing my small apartment. "Is this some kind of sick joke?" I asked, my voice trembling. I looked down at my resume scattered across his expensive carpet. "Did you bring me all the way up here just to humiliate me again?" Maxwell let out a long, heavy sigh and rubbed his face with his hands, looking incredibly guilty. "No, Fiona," he

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