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CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT: Two Weeks Is a Long Time

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Liam's POV

Helena does not say anything in the elevator.

She waits until we are in the car, until the driver has pulled away from the Bellamy Inc building and Paris is moving past the windows, and then she closes her folder and looks at me and says, "what was that?"

"What was what?" I ask.

"The last question," she says. "At the end. After everything was wrapped up... That question was not about the merger."

I look out the window.

"No," I reply. "It wasn't."

She waits for more.

I do not give he
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