Celina couldn’t hold it in. A laugh slipped out—light, freeing, though still tired.

“Only you could make me laugh at a time like this.”

Zoe leaned against Celina’s desk like someone about to hear a major secret, winked, and pointed at her.

“That’s exactly why I’m here! Because, darling, no one—and I mean no one—around this company is talking about anything else but you, Celina! The sweet, polite, proper lady who suddenly… turned into a tigress!”

Celina’s eyes widened, nearly choking on her own laugh.

“What?!”

“That’s right, you heard me!” Zoe confirmed, already gesturing like she was narrating some epic saga. “This morning, we had Celina: calm, collected, practically a corporate nun… And now? BAM! Here comes the Tigress! The savage of Legal! The HR avenger! The hunter of spoiled, pregnant little princesses!”

This time, Celina burst into loud laughter, leaning back in her chair.

“Zoe, you’re impossible!”

“Sweetheart…” Zoe adjusted her glasses with mock seriousness. “You dragged that wo