“Today, President Cole brought a strange woman into the building and sent her straight to the secretariat. Everyone’s been whispering about what she means to him…”
Naomi’s colleague didn’t dare finish the sentence.
Everyone in the company already knew the relationship between Sebastian Cole and Naomi Hart was anything but ordinary. For a new woman to appear so openly, under his personal arrangement, left little room for innocent explanations.
The colleague mumbled an excuse, grabbed her unfinished coffee, and fled the break room without meeting Naomi’s eyes.
Naomi stood frozen.
Could it be… the woman from the photos Ono had taken that day?
She had told herself Sebastian’s connection to that stranger was casual. Temporary. Meaningless. Yet he had brought her into the company in full v
