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    Adah looked more furious than Elliana. “If he’s that much of a jerk, drop him! Why are you even moping around? Pretend he never existed!”


    Elliana clenched her jaw, grinding what was left of the candy between her teeth. Adah was right. But saying it was one thing. Living it was another. She and Cole had loved deeply and shared moments that felt real and warm. How could she just erase that?


    Adah had never truly been in love, so she couldn’t understand the turmoil inside Elliana’s heart. Heck, even Elliana couldn’t untangle the mess herself.


    Some things could only be understood through experience.


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    Adah grabbed her hand and tugged her toward the door. “Come on. I know just the thing to cheer you up. By the end of tonight, you’ll forget that jerk even existed.”


    Elliana stumbled after her. “Where are we going?”


    “Nightfall!” Adah grinned, her eyes gleaming. “It’s a new club—huge, gorgeous, supposed to rival Manley’s Royal Club. I haven’t been there yet. Let’s hit it tonight!”


    Elliana didn’t feel like going out, but Adah wouldn’t take no for an answer and dragged her along.


    Meanwhile, in the CEO’s office at Evans Group, Cole sat at his desk, eyes locked on his screen, but his mind was miles away. Images from the earlier encounter with Lh kept reying in his head—every detail burned into his memory.


    The softness of her body pressed against his, the cascade of her waist-length hair, that stunningly beautiful face… Even now, he could still catch the faint scent of her perfume, recall the exact shade of her eyes, and remember the sound of her voice.


    It was as if the details had been etched into his memory all along, and her presence had just been the key to unlocking them. No woman had ever gotten to him like this. One meeting, and she’d made herself unforgettable. It was unnerving.


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    He tried to recall any past encounters but came up empty. He was sure this was their first meeting. And yet, here he was—restless, her image stamped into his mind. He wasn’t the kind of man who let women sway him easily. There was only one exnation: it had to be that she was such a master of seduction. And he, like an idiot, had fallen into her trap.


    The thought made his blood boil. That bold woman. Did she really think she could y him? Not a chance. His fist mmed down on the keyboard.


    Right then, a sharp knock echoed from the door.


    Cole paused, his voice cold as ice. “Come in.”


    Paulina pushed the door open and instantly felt the tension hit her like a wall. She hesitated in the doorway, her eyes darting toward him—and froze. His face was thunderous. What happened?


    She buried her confusion behind a polite smile and walked forward, holding out a file. “Mr. Evans, we’vepleted the background check on that youngdy.”


    Cole was deep in his spection that Lh was a master seductress, consumed by irritation—so much so, he’d fleetingly imagined strangling her. He snatched the file from Paulina’s hand and flipped through it. With every word he read, his expression darkened even more.


    Lh Briggs was a twenty-year-old international student enrolled at Ublento Medical University, known only as the daughter of a powerful overseas financier and a resident of the exclusive Rosewood Vi. That was all Paulina’s investigation had unearthed.


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