Encounter

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CHAPTER 22 Aria jumped as the stationary case flew off the table and crashed into the wall below the second window adjacent to Xavier's position. She clutched the notepad to her chest and watched him as he cleared another object off his table without caring where it went. The plastic bottle of water tumbled to its side and rolled to a stop just at the tip of Aria's toes. She watched the water bubble up and down. She continued to stare suddenly afraid to look up at Xavier who was currently in a fit of rage mixed with frustration. Another board meeting had gone terribly wrong, worse than the previous one. Besides the Charleston case, a fastly uprising hotel was already nudging at their heel as reports show that there's a threatening decline in patronage. The others hadn't seemed to be bo

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