Chapter 26: Playing the Game

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Bella POV The morning after my breakdown, I woke up with swollen eyes and a pounding headache. Maya was already in the kitchen making coffee when I emerged, and she took one look at my face before sliding a mug across the counter. "You look like hell," she said bluntly. "I feel worse." I wrapped my hands around the warm mug and took a long drink, grateful for the bitter burn. "Is Tom still asleep?" "Angela took him to breakfast downstairs. I told her you needed to sleep in." Maya leaned against the counter and studied me with those perceptive dark eyes. "You have the networking reception tonight. The one you can't skip because half of Silverton's business elite will be there." I'd forgotten about the reception. Of course there was a networking event, there was always a networking even

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