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SELENE'S POV
My pulse roared in my ears. Despite it all, I made a show of recoiling in shock.
“Excuse me,” I said, my voice a pitch higher. “How dare you accuse me of something so outrageous.”
He looked almost bored.
“See, I wouldn’t have done such a thing without doing my due diligence first,” he said calmly. “All it took was a google search on Grayson Vexley’s new secretary and I found out that you’d spent the final year of your high school in the same as his.”
“And from there,” he went on smoothly, “all it took was one phone call to an old classmate. Just one. And suddenly, your history with Grayson Vexley was wide open. It all made sense then.”
I almost laughed. Did he really think one phone call could ever encapsulate the complicated history we shared? We were so much
