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CHAPTER TWELVE: INTIMATE ACCESS

Autor: Winny
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Tuesday evening. The office had emptied hours ago. Just the hum of air conditioning and distant street noise forty-two floors below.

I was packing up when Adrian's door opened.

"Reina. Got a minute?"

I looked up. He stood in the doorway, tie loosened, sleeves rolled up. The flight from Chicago had landed two hours ago but he'd gone straight into back-to-back meetings.

"Of course."

He gestured me inside. I followed, my stomach tight.

This was it. He'd figured it out. The nickname. Everything.

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