Elina’s POV

The office door clicked shut behind Ryan, leaving a heavy silence in its wake.

He had received an urgent call in the middle of all this tension and just as quietly as he had come, he left.

Without saying a single word to me.

Was the call really that urgent? Or was he just that annoyed with me—that he couldn’t even look at me?

But that was a question for later.

Right now, only one thing burned in my mind.

I wasn’t ...