The chaos came to a close with a few sharp slaps, Dovie’s streaming tears, and a security team forced to wedge themselves between a feral Liora and an equally unhinged Sable.
But not everything unfolded the way I’d hoped.
Ansel slipped out the moment the tension cracked. Dovie vanished shortly after, no doubt trying to salvage the last shreds of her dignity. As for the star-crossed duo, they were escorted out, their humiliation thick in the air. The real fallout hit them hardest.
Ansel? No one laid eyes on him for the rest of the day.
“So… are you finally going to tell me how you pulled it off?” Romilly’s eyes were burning holes through my ribcage the minute we returned to our office. She’d held off asking while the team was around, but once I took a breather, she yanked me up to the r
