Chapter 157

Jayden's POV.

I hit the mahogany door with the full weight of my shoulder.

I didn’t knock.

I barged into her office.

It felt right. The noise. The violence of the impact. I needed to shatter the air, to announce my presence not as a CEO, but as a man who had lost everything and was now immune to consequence.

The room was colder than it should have been. It wasn’t the main executive suite, but the smaller, glass-walled meeting room I’d assigned to Ally—when ...