Chapter 100

GIDEON

The silence after she walked out wasn’t just heavy.

It was a goddamn black hole.

I stood frozen in the middle of my office, hands still braced on the edge of my desk, as if I were holding myself back from tearing the whole fucking place apart. Her scent still lingered in the air—floral, soft, haunting. The echo of her voice clung to the walls. But she was gone.

And every second that pas