Serena Vale
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Two months after Marcus officially denied the claims, everything became quieter. The case didn’t explode the way everyone expected it to. Marcus didn’t countersue. He also didn’t drag my name into it.
That should have reassured me. And it did. But only for a little while.
Jess stopped asking if we were going to survive. Clients stopped hesitating before they signed contracts. The agency became more stabilized than it had been. There were no over-the-top offers, but there were enough to keep us going. We had also moved into a new office space which everyone was excited about, making them work even harder.
I should have been relieved.
But Nikolai had changed.
He came home earlier. He slept a lot more. He stopped obsessing over work and stopped snapping at work emails t
