At the office, the air was electric with gossip and whispers. People leaned over cubicles, traded glances, and murmured like schoolchildren after seeing a celebrity walk in.
Stephan had pulled up in style.
Dressed head-to-toe in sleek black, he'd arrived with Anna Mary and Yennefer flanking him, like a trio of assassins at a funeral. Their entrance had turned heads, stopped conversations, and started rumors.
The men wished they were Stephan, and the women,especially Eva, envied Anna Mary and Yennefer to the bone.
How did they end up beside the company's new enigma, the man everyone couldn't stop talking about? They weren't just hanging out with him,they looked like they belonged there.
But Stephan paid no mind.
He sat in his usual spot, silent, unreadable, ignoring the buzzing office around him.
His thoughts weren't here. They were still tangled in what had happened just two hours ago, the soul energy, heavy as thunder, that had pressed down on him like gravity itself.
