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The Office Interruption

Penulis: Winnie El
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-07-08 20:20:37

The leather folder felt entirely too heavy in Marcus’s grip. It was just a thick stack of finalized customs clearances and secondary financing agreements.

He had spent twenty minutes in his own office, staring at the signature lines until the black ink began to blur into meaningless squiggles, trying to force his heart rate down to something resembling a normal rhythm.

He just wanted to get it over with. He wanted to drop the documents on the desk, get his father’s sign-off, and flee the buildi
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    Marcus’s heavy leather boots hit the sleek, charcoal-gray tiles of the executive corridor like the dull, rhythmic thuds of a failing engine. He didn't even know where he was walking anymore. The thick leather folder containing the Vandermeer clearances was clamped so tightly under his armpit that the cardboard backing was actively buckling, the sharp edges biting right through the damp fabric of his black button-down shirt. His vision was a blurry, vibrating tunnel of glass partitions, brushed steel doors, and the soft, maddening hum of the building's massive climate control system.He could still see it. Every single agonizing detail was permanently printed onto the back of his eyelids.The way that charcoal wool skirt had been pushed entirely up over the pale, heavy curve of her thighs. The way Damien’s thick, blunt fingers had dug into her skin, leaving slight, temporary indentations in the soft flesh. The absolute, unbothered arrogance of his father's mouth moving against hers.

  • Once Discarded, I Married His Dearest Daddy   The Office Interruption

    The leather folder felt entirely too heavy in Marcus’s grip. It was just a thick stack of finalized customs clearances and secondary financing agreements.He had spent twenty minutes in his own office, staring at the signature lines until the black ink began to blur into meaningless squiggles, trying to force his heart rate down to something resembling a normal rhythm.He just wanted to get it over with. He wanted to drop the documents on the desk, get his father’s sign-off, and flee the building before the walls completely closed in on him.He didn't check with the executive assistant. Her desk outside the massive double doors was empty anyway—probably down down the hall at the copy station. Marcus didn't care. He didn't think to pause. He just gripped the heavy brass handle, turned it, and pushed the thick oak door open without knocking.The air in his lungs instantly turned to solid lead.Marcus froze. His boots felt like they had been welded directly into the plush, dark blue ca

  • Once Discarded, I Married His Dearest Daddy   Tailored Distraction

    The glass-walled enclosure of the fortieth-floor boardroom was usually a freezer. The building's central AC system was set to a brutal, industrial chill specifically designed to keep forty middle-aged board members from sweating through their bespoke three-piece suits during long fiscal reviews.But Marcus was burning alive.He stood at the front of the long, polished mahogany table, the plastic casing of the presentation remote biting hard into the sweaty palm of his right hand. On the massive projector screen behind him, a complex, color-coded spreadsheet detailing the Rotterdam port allocations was glowing in bright, clinical blues and greens. He was supposed to be speaking. He was supposed to be explaining why the third-quarter freight tariffs had dropped by three point eight percent.Instead, he was just choking on his own tongue."The... the secondary terminal capacity," Marcus stammered, his voice dropping into a rough, uneven register that sounded completely unpracticed. H

  • Once Discarded, I Married His Dearest Daddy    The Style Council

    "Excuse me, ma'am, but I’m going to have to ask you to stay in the front gallery. The private salon is entirely closed to the public right now."Sophia stopped dead in her tracks, her beige leather heels clicking to a sharp, jarring halt against the white marble floor of Maison Vaudreuil. She stared at the young sales assistant holding a sleek black iPad like a shield. The girl looked barely twenty, her hair slicked back into a tight corporate bun, her expression polite but completely unyielding."Closed?" Sophia’s voice carried that high, icy pitch she usually reserved for incompetent airline staff or slow caterers. She adjusted the heavy strap of her luxury handbag, her knuckles turning a slight, stressed white. "I have had a platinum profile with this boutique since before you completed your primary education. I don't wait in the front gallery.""I am incredibly sorry, ma'am," the assistant said, her voice dropping into a hushed, reverent whisper that only made Sophia’s blood boil

  • Once Discarded, I Married His Dearest Daddy   Shadows and Static

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  • Once Discarded, I Married His Dearest Daddy   Playing the Nice Guy

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  • Once Discarded, I Married His Dearest Daddy   The New Kingmaker

    The glass walls of the primary boardroom were designed to reflect the harbor, but today, with the rain finally cleared, they just let in a cold, piercing glare that made the long mahogany table look like a sheet of dark ice.The air conditioning was humming too low. It was that expensive, scentless

  • Once Discarded, I Married His Dearest Daddy   Velvet Shackle

    Inside the master suite of the villa, the air was warm, thick with the scent of burning cedar and the expensive, waxy perfume of the white lilies Diane had placed on the mantelpiece that morning.Damien was sitting on the low leather sofa, his head pushed back into the dark cushions, his eyes close

  • Once Discarded, I Married His Dearest Daddy    The Reorganization Chart

    The notification didn’t arrive with any warning. It was just a flat, gray box that popped up in the lower right-hand corner of Marcus’s screen at exactly ten minutes past nine. Internal Audit Call: Fourth Floor Logistics Management. Location: Office of the Chief Strategy Officer. Time: 14:00.Marc

  • Once Discarded, I Married His Dearest Daddy   What Exile Really Tastes Of

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