MICHEAL'S POV
I sat at my desk, staring at the same line of code I'd been pretending to read for the last twenty minutes. The screen seems to be blurred. My mind was far away—stuck in that damn moment in the boardroom, her voice shaking, her eyes glassy, saying she didn't mean to hurt me. But she did hurt me.
It had all fallen apart while I was blinking.
The leak, Kate showing up unexpectedly, Ashley disappearing with her eyes laced with tears—God, I'd never felt so helpless.
What if she decides I wasn't enough? What if she's tired of the drama that surrounds me? What if she never trusts me again? And the worst of all, what if this thing between us—this good, true love we have, was already on the point of shattering because I let too much through the cracks?.
“Hey.” Ethan’s voice br
