Too Late Mr CEO: Watch Me Reign

age proposal across the

ire's strategic alliance with the Sterling family. It was a calculated gamble that also contained the end of her three-year secre

kinney didn'

raction of a second. He lifted his gaze. His dark eyes swept over her face with a

oposal and dropped it directly into

office. Felicity's stomach plummeted. She dug her fingernails so hard into her palms that the skin threatened to b

rth st

He stopped inches away, the scent of his expensive cedar cologne mixing with the raw, dangerous tension in the room

ity," he warned, his deep voice drippi

urned her head stubbornly, refusing to let him see the moisture gathering i

intercom on hi

ant's voice trembled through the spe

ls contracted sharply. The muscles in his ja

a steel band were crushing her ribs. The intense anxiety

his back on her and grabbed his sui

dy walking toward the door. "Finish t

ook at her pale,

lungs burning as she gasped for air. Her phone screen lit up on the coffee table. A breaking news notification flashed: Cam

s clicking against the hardwood floor as she walked to the floor-to-ceiling window. Looking down at the gr

the Waldorf Astoria was a sea of gl

he Mckinney Group, she was here to manage the annual charity gala's PR. Her face ached from mainta

s of the banquet hall

ed in, his arm wrapped firmly around Camila's waist. Camila wore a flowing white gown

, landing on the expensive fabric of her haute couture dress. She stare

d him straight toward where Felicity was standing. A flash of calculated malic

ont of her and exten

. Her face remained completely blank. Whispers e

d. He adjusted his custom cufflink

s tone left absolutely no room for argument. It w

her teeth togeth

jerking upward. The full glass of red wine in her other hand splashed violen

out, her eyes instantly welling up with

iately pivoted, lenses

la behind his broad back as if Felicity w

hing out like a whip. "You frightened her. Go to the back

her dignity in fron

hope in her heart shattered into dust. She let out a dry, hollow laugh. Without a word, she tu

hallway was

e shadows, blocking Felicity's path. He sho

t," Jax

mit she had suffered a mental breakdown due to work stress, a

abbed the paper and ripped it in half,

out his phone, dialed a nu

freezing voice came

" Felicity said, her v

now," Ellsworth said slowly, "I will cut the year-end bonuses for

t the warm sting of blood. He knew exactly how to break her. Her team had work

the phone b

d in the center of the

hand. Below her, hundreds of eyes stared up, fill

t, syllable by agonizing syllable. "I apologize for my unprofessional be

e a razor blade sli

ble spike of irritation hit his chest. He frowned, but Camila leaned her head

ished the la

onto the wooden podium. A piercing, high-pitched feedback screec

rinted off the stage and out

ood on the curb, waving frantically until a yellow cab pulled over. She threw herself into t

om the Waldorf, her pho

of her hand and pulled it out. It

ward to our

was strictly forbidden in the Mckinney buildi