Chapter 75
Max’s Point of View
The silence in my office was deafening, broken only by the faint hum of the air conditioning. I sat at my desk, staring blankly at the stack of files I should have been working through. But my mind wasn’t in the room it hadn’t been for days. It hadn’t been for weeks, to be honest. Every time I tried to focus, my thoughts drifted back to Eva her betrayal, her coldness, the way she’d stabbed me in the back with her lies. And yet, I couldn't shake the weight of what she’d done to me.
A sharp knock at the door jolted me out of my thoughts. Before I could respond, my secretary stepped in, her expression uneasy as she held a brown envelope.
“Mr. Grave, this just arrived. It’s marked urgent.”
I nodded, motioning for her to leave it on the desk. She placed it do
