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Terrible Boss

Author: Cameo
last update Last Updated: 2025-03-10 16:47:49

Dylan's POV

Those days after the fight crawled like a desert.

I didn't know what I was thinking after walking outta Tristan's office, but I'd stupidly, foolishly hoped that maybe, somehow, it'd lessen. That one mornin', I'd wake and the pain inside my chest wouldn't be so damn suffocating.

It did the opposite instead.

Couldn't sleep. Ate hardly anything. The moment I closed my eyes, I could see him—his unbreakable face, that cold voice of his telling me our circumstances wouldn't change, even after he married another. His words ran through my mind, day after day, like some pitiful broken record I couldn't turn off.

It made me angry.

No—he did.

I was so goddamn sick of being the fool. Of falling for alphas who told me pretty little lies just to leave me with nothing. Mason had done it first. Now Tristan was no different.

I was fucking a man who was engaged. Worst part was Tristan had no intentions of telling me, he didn’t think I was worth telling.

Man did that hurt.

And yet—despite al
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