ARIA
I wasn't pushing papers today, thankfully.
No, I was coordinating a goddamn logistics crisis.
One of the overseas branches had accidentally rerouted a shipment of luxury tech prototypes meant for a private presentation to the wrong port in Brazil. Now, I was managing angry calls, rescheduling flights, and subtly threatening a warehouse manager in Portuguese over the phone, all while pretending I wasn't dying inside.
Because I was. Just a little.
My brain was playing a dangerous game of mental pinball.
Sylas.
I didn't even know where to begin with that mess.
He had acted like a child caught stealing cookies in the middle of the night. All flushed cheeks and awkward eyes, scrambling for the door like my apartment had grown fangs.
Did he hate the space? Was it too cramped? Too… me?
But then again, who the hell cared?
He was the one who asked to come over.