The office should’ve been calmer after Adrian left.
It wasn’t.
It was worse.
Because now Alessandro Moretti was back—and he looked like he was one bad decision away from burning the whole place down.
Elena didn’t even look up when he walked in.
“You disappeared again,” she said flatly.
Alessandro scoffed. “Yeah? I was gone a few hours, not a damn decade.”
“You didn’t inform anyone.”
He dropped his jacket over a chair. “I don’t report my movements.”
“That’s not how a company works.”
He finally looked at her. “It is when it’s my company.”
That shut the room up around them.
Elena exhaled sharply. “You’re impossible.”
“And you’re still here,” he shot back. “So what does that make you?”
She glared at him. “Patient.”
He laughed once. “Bullshit.”
A pause.
Tension again.
Always t
