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"I know you're upset about the project." Samuel Chapman gripped my wrist tightly, his fingers cold and firm as he tried to stop me from dialing the phone. "But if you make a scene now, Sophie's internship review will be ruined." "Tomorrow's the selection for the Astulan headquarters exchange program. You can't let the director think Sophie has character issues—it'll ruin her future!" His words were like a slap in the face, and an icy chill spread through my body, creeping from my heart to my limbs. It seemed he still hadn't realized—we were using the same model of external hard drive. The one that got drenched in coffee wasn't mine. It was his, the one filled with the culmination of his ten years of hard work, the very project he'd been pouring everything into for the National Architecture Gold Award.