Chapter 32

Eliza had been pressing the elevator button for a while now, but all the elevators stubbornly remained at the seventeenth floor, refusing to budge. Her phone rang incessantly, all calls from Secretary Nina urging her to go up. What was so important? Or had everyone gone to the seventeenth floor? Eliza gritted her teeth and headed for the staircase. The Seventeenth Floor... By the time she laboriously pushed open the door to the stairwell, panting and soaked in sweat, the sight that greeted her was as shocking as the breathlessness. The carpet was a soft, golden hue, and there were two figures pressing against each other. The woman was the redhead with the curly hair she had seen on the overhead pedestrian bridge. Her exquisite and apparently expensive red dress was pulled down halfway, revealing slender crystal straps. Her rounded shoulders and the upward tilt of her neck formed a beautiful arc. Her hands tightly held the man - Xander. With her eyes closed and lips pressed against Xand