Ainsley returned to work after resting for a few more days. When Jacob called him……………
Ainsley didn’t hesitate. He glanced at Ellison, who looked back at him curiously.
“You don’t mind, do you?” Ainsley asked, already picking up the phone before Ellison could even respond. But Ainsley knew this call wasn’t from Jacob.
His chest tightened. His voice remained calm, but every nerve in his body stood on edge, waiting and wanting.
Then……..
“Let the Anthony Group go,” her voice came, stiff, emotion coiled tightly beneath the surface.
Ainsley leaned back in his chair. His grip on the phone tightened. It was her. That damn voice, he hadn’t heard it in days, and yet the second she spoke, his entire world tilted.
He smiled slowly and coldly, and said in a voice that burned with longing masked
