CHAPTER FIVE: LINES YOU SHOULDN’T CROSS
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Serena spent the entire night staring at the contract.
The papers lay untouched on her small kitchen table while rain tapped softly against the window.
Every instinct told her to stay away from Adrian Knight.
Men like him didn’t enter people’s lives peacefully.
They consumed them.
Still…
The amount of money written in that contract could save her mother.
And Serena was running out of options.
“You should take it,” Nina said immediately after hearing everything the next morning.
Serena looked horrified. “Are you insane?”
“Possibly. But I’m also realistic.”
“Nina, the man literally looks at people like he’s planning their funeral.”
“And yet he offered you a job instead of destroying your life.”
“That’s somehow worse.”
Nina laughed before growing serious again. “Serena… your mother needs treatment.”
That sentence hit hard.
Because it was true.
By afternoon, Serena found herself standing once again inside Knight Empire Headquarters.
She already regretted coming.
The receptionist smiled nervously the moment she arrived. “Mr. Knight is waiting for you.”
Of course he was.
This man probably scheduled world domination between meetings.
When the elevator doors opened, Adrian was already standing outside his office as if he had expected her exact arrival time.
Dark suit.
Cold eyes.
Dangerously attractive.
Serena hated it.
“You came back,” he said calmly.
“Don’t sound so proud.”
A small smirk appeared on his lips. “And the attitude remains.”
Serena held up the contract. “I have conditions
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