JACE:
As soon as I walked out of my office... well penthouse home office.... Jacob walked out of the elevator... forcing me to stop in my tracks, glaring at Jacob like he was the one that I just argued with.
“Hey,” Jacob said, strolling in with his usual smug energy like he wasn’t absolutely asking for a punch to the throat. “Sorry to interrupt your brooding and breakdown or whatever the hell’s going on in here, but your employee has actual work to do.”
I blinked. “Jacob—”
“Nope,” he cut me off, holding up a hand. “You’ve had her long enough. Pretty sure I saw her contract and nowhere on it did it say ‘personal therapist to emotionally constipated CEO.’”
Rory snorted, then clamped her mouth shut like she hadn’t just betrayed me with a laugh.
Traitor.
Jacob turned to her. “Your next
