Alex avoided Callan for exactly one day.
She didn’t intend to, and she certainly wasn’t childish enough to think silence solved anything. It was because every time she pictured Callan standing in that living room looking at her with that quiet, steady intensity while she admitted she was forgetting the arrangement wasn’t real, humiliation curled hot beneath her skin all over again.
So, she buried herself in work instead. Meetings. Financial projects. Calls with investors. Damage control disguised as strategic planning.
She spent the entire day locked inside her office at Adkins Global with spreadsheets fanned out across her desk and Kayla screening nearly every call that came through.
Unfortunately, avoiding Callan Ashford turned out to be significantly more difficult now that the medi
