Chapter 23
Chapter 23: The Watcher in the Room Maya sipped her lukewarm coffee and blinked slowly, the way she always did when people assumed she wasn’t paying attention. They were wrong, of course. She noticed everything. Rain’s entrance. The silence that followed. The way Sly’s shoulders tensed before he even looked up. The sharp cut of Feliz’s gaze—neutral, but not blank. And when Rain dropped the almost-bomb about the building's real owner, Maya’s fingers itched toward her phone. Not to gossip. To report. She had one job—not given by HR, not by Joseph or even Sly himself. Her real boss was someone no one here would dare question: Joaquin Salvador. Chairman of SVD, the tycoon whose empire owned far more than people realized, including Maison Sauveur. And Maya? She was his eyes and ears her
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