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As soon as the door closed behind him, Carrie exhaled. The air in the room felt easier to breathe.
She went back to the bench and sat down again. Her phone rang. Startled, she pulled it out of her coat pocket.
The screen lit up with a nshe hadn't expected: Daxton.
Her finger hovered over the screen. The call almost rang out before she finally hit the green button.
Stealing a glance at the door, her voice casual, she asked, “Daxton? What's up? Callingout of nowhere like
this...”
“Can’t | just call you?” he replied, tone light and easy—like always. But underneath that charm, there was a
strange stillness.
If Carrie could see him now, she'd notice how tense the atmosphere around him was. The way the household
staff tiptoed around the room, barely daring to breathe.
“I didn’t mean it like that,” Carrie replied quickly, distracted. She glanced toward the door again, silently hoping
he would end the call soon.
Daxton’s fingers, which had been tapping rhythmically against the back of the sofa, suddenly stilled. Then, in a
voice that was far too calm, he asked, “Where are you?”
Carrie froze at Daxton’s question. Her eyes flicked instinctively toward the hallway, where Kristopher had
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtdisappeared moments earlier. His face flashed in her mind.
She quickly composed herself and responded with a soft smile, “I'm just handling a few things at the office
today.”
It was a harmless lie—or so she told herself. She just didn’t want to give Daxton the wrong idea. There was
nothing going on between her and Kristopher anymore, and there never would be. At least, that’s what she kept
telling herself.
Besides, whatever she and Daxton had... it was probably nearing its end anyway.
Daxton was everything she'd once imagined in a man—elegant, composed, generous. But the feelings she had
for him leaned more toward admiration than love.
She planned to break things off, gently, when the tfelt right. So really, there was no reason to report her
every move to a man she was about to leave.
But on the other end of the line, Daxton’s smile faded ever so slightly. The coldness in his eyes deepened,
turning into something chilly.
His voice, however, remained calm. Smooth. Measured. “Oh? What made you decide to go into the office all of a
sudden? Isn't Ruby covering things there? Or are you secretly out having fun somewhere?”
Without waiting for an answer, he muted the call and turned to the man standing beside him. “Find out where
she is.”
He didn’t need to say her name. Everyone around him knew exactly who he meant. No one referred to her as Ms.
Campbell anymore. Around Daxton, she was simply Mrs. Garcia.
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