Derrick was at the front of his desk where he had met Felicia, and Felicia had wrapped her arms around Derrick’s neck and was kissing him. Eva froze in place as she stared at them, hating what she was seeing and wishing with everything in her that she could undo it or at least look away. She knew that it was a moment between Derrick and Felicia that she shouldn’t have seen, and it was one that she was never going to forget.

Her stomach tightened, and she could not stop the guttural sound that emanated from her, almost as if she had been punched in the midsection and the...