Mia barely slept.
She tossed from side to side, the sheets tangling around her legs like ropes. Ethan’s smug voice kept replaying in her head. And then the fragments of memory that wouldn’t fit neatly into place: glimpses of Liam in school, blurry edges of a boy she never noticed but who now haunted her thoughts.
By dawn her head was pounding, her body buzzing with exhaustion. She sat up with a groan, pressing her palms to her temples. No way was she dragging herself to the office today. She’d call it a personal day. Perks of being the boss, right?
The penthouse was still, too quiet. Her bare feet hit the cold marble as she made her way into the kitchen. She filled the kettle and waited, staring at the wide glass windows that offered a perfect view of the skyline. Normally, she loved th
