CHAPTER 33

CHAPTER 33

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I walked through the hallway dressed in an oversized button-up shirt that reached my knees. After Angeline pointed out that I was still, in fact, dressed in my birthday suit, Riley took off his shirt faster than I could process the speed and forced me into the piece of fabric. A smile covered their faces when I accepted the sweater, and Riley fell to his knees, thanking me for saving his mate. They returned home with the biggest smiles, and my heart stung with pain and my soul green with envy.

I was so stricken by pain that I ran out of Killian's office and found myself in a storage room after running for what might have felt like hours but couldn't be more than a couple of minutes. And even now, as I walked back to Killian's office after hours of cradling myself in silence, the whirlpool of emotions still existed in my soul.

As I neared Killian's office with my shoulders held high and my mind a mess, I was stopped by a woman who had a scowl on her face. Her plat