ELLE POV
The car ride was quiet, and I marched through the schedule of the board meeting in my head. The pings of notifications were a maddening staccato — emails, reminders, calendar alerts. However, nothing in the email could have prepared me for the disaster that awaited outside the building.
I stepped out of the car, and the morning’s cool air washed over my face. The glass entry doors to King Enterprise gleamed, evoking the same sense of power and manipulation I had always felt. I lifted my foot to the floor that was waxed...
And my shoe betrayed me.
“Oh my gosh!” I hopped on one foot while reaching for my heel-side, “OUCH!” But the other shoe wouldn’t come unstuck, and I stumbled off-balance. Why this? Why now? I muttered, panic rising in my chest now.
I spotted him from the ot
