Chapter 53
Nadine’s POV
The door clicked behind Ashton, and the sound echoed through the room like the closing of a tomb.
I stood frozen, my hands dangling uselessly at my sides, my mind unable to process what had just happened.
I couldn't help but being suspicious about how he acted. My mind suddenly clicks at something, I quickly went to my laptop and realized the project was gone and the flashdrive was not there anymore.
The project in the laptop was gone.
The flash drive...my flash drive...was gone.
Every carefully curated file, every strategy, every piece of leverage that I had spent weeks crafting… gone.
My chest tightened painfully. My legs refused to move. I took a slow, shaky step toward the desk, my fingers hovering over the empty space as if I might somehow summon it ba
