ROMAN'S POV

After hearing her last words, I let out a quiet sigh that felt heavier than it should have. I dragged over an office chair from the corner and sat down across from her. For the first time since I walked in here, I didn’t feel like a boss talking to his employee, I felt like a man trying to reach through the invisible wall she had built around herself.

She had just let down her guard a little, and that was progress, something I’d been trying to achieve for days. If she was ...