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Sorry, Counsel: My Heart Is Off the Record. Chapter 6
Harper did not open the envelope right away.She held it in both hands while the car rolled through the rain. The paper was soft at the corners. It smelled faintly of lavender and old drawers. It smelled like her mother's coat."Take your time," Dale said."Don't talk to me."He nodded and looked out the window.Her thumb found the flap. It was already loose, the glue long dried. Someone had opened this before. Someone had read it, sealed it again, and carried it across the city to her.She pulled out a single sheet.The handwriting hit her first. Slanted. Looped. The same hand that had signed every school form of her childhood. The same hand that had written "Eat something" on a sticky note and left it on the fridge, every single day, until the day she moved out.Her eyes blurred. She wiped them with the back of her wrist and read.My darling Harper,If you are holding this, then the worst has happened. I am so sorry. I wanted to be wrong.I am alive.The words sat on the page like a
Sorry, Counsel: My Heart Is Off the Record. Chapter 5
"Mila." Kai coughed, one hand braced on the shelf. "Turn it off. Now.""Not yet.""We can't breathe!""You can for another ninety seconds." Mila didn't lower the flashlight. "Jaxon ran for the stairwell. I need him to think the room is sealed. If he knows I turned off the gas, he comes back."Aria's vision swam. The sweet smell was thick now, sliding down her throat like syrup. She pressed her scarf harder against her face."Who do you work for?" she rasped."Someone who wants Jaxon Pierce in a cell.""That's not an answer.""It's the only one you get before you pass out."Aria staggered. Kai caught her elbow. His hand was shaking, but he held on."Sixty seconds," Mila said. She crouched, pulled a small tablet from her bag, and tapped fast. "Do you still have the remote?""Yes.""Press the unlabeled button.""You said don't press anything!""I said don't press anything else. I'm giving you permission."Aria stared at the third button. Blank. Gray. The kind of button that did something
Sorry, Counsel: My Heart Is Off the Record. Chapter 4
Kai stepped in front of her before she could blink."Jaxon." His voice was dangerously calm. "What are you doing here?""Protecting my investment." Jaxon strolled down the aisle, polished shoes tapping on concrete. "You looped the camera feed. Clever. Did you think I wouldn't notice my own system, Kai? I built it.""You followed us.""I didn't need to. I knew where you'd take her." Jaxon glanced at Aria and smiled. "Ten years with the man. He's very predictable when he's in love."Aria's skin went cold. She slid her hand into her pocket and found her phone. No bars. Of course there were no bars. Six floors underground, behind concrete and steel.Zoe's twenty minutes had just become the only clock that mattered."Where is the memo?" she demanded."Gone.""The box was full yesterday.""And now it's empty. Funny how that works." He lifted a small black remote and turned it lazily in his fingers. "It controls the fire doors. The ventilation. The lights. One click, and this room becomes ve
Sorry, Counsel: My Heart Is Off the Record. Chapter 3
"Don't touch it," Zoe said."It's a flash drive, not a bomb.""It came from a man on a motorbike who hid his face. That's how bombs arrive."Aria dug an old laptop out of her bottom drawer. It was dusty, offline, and ugly. She had kept it for exactly this kind of day, though she'd never imagined it would be this one.She plugged in the drive.One folder. One file. A video.She pressed play.The footage was grainy, shot from a parked car. A restaurant entrance. Night. A woman stepped out in a long cream coat, hair tied back, a leather folder under her arm.She turned toward the camera.Zoe gasped.The woman had Aria's coat. Aria's folder. Aria's walk.But when the streetlight hit her face, she was a stranger. Same height. Same dark hair. Different mouth. Different eyes."That's not you," Zoe breathed."No.""Someone dressed up as you.""Six years ago." Aria's voice was flat. "Two days before the memo."On the screen, Jaxon Pierce stepped out behind the woman. He laughed. He kissed her
Sorry, Counsel: My Heart Is Off the Record. Chapter 2
Aria pushed through the courthouse doors and walked straight toward him.Kai watched her come. He didn't run. He didn't retreat. He just stood on the steps with his hands in his pockets, like a man waiting for a sentence to be read."Explain," she said."Not here.""Here.""Aria." His eyes flicked past her shoulder. "The guard by the door works for Jaxon. So does the woman at the coffee cart."She almost laughed. "You're paranoid.""I'm careful. There's a difference."She held up the note. Her fingers trembled, and she hated that. "You wrote this.""Yes.""Why?"His jaw flexed. Those gray eyes searched her face like he was memorizing it."Because I didn't sign that memo."The street noise faded. A bus rumbled past. Somewhere, a horn blared.Her heart stopped, then restarted painfully."Don't," she whispered."Aria...""Six years, Kai. I held your signature in my hands. Your name. Your pen.""I know what it looked like.""It looked like you sold me for a partnership.""I know.""Then s
Sorry, Counsel: My Heart Is Off the Record. Chapter 1
Aria Lane had rehearsed this courtroom a hundred times.The opening argument. The exhibits. The way she would stand when the judge called her name.She had not rehearsed him."Counsel for the plaintiffs, are you ready?" Judge Whitmore asked."Yes, Your Honor." Aria pushed through the double doors in her black blazer, heels clicking on marble. Her pulse was steady. Her face was calm.Then she looked at the defense table.Her feet stopped.Kai Sterling.Dark suit. Sharp jaw. Those gray eyes she used to wake up to every morning.Six years of silence. And he sat there like nothing had ever ended.Zoe bumped into her back. "Aria? What's wrong?""Other table."Zoe looked. Her mouth fell open. "Is that your ex-husband?""Zoe.""Sorry. Breathing now."Aria made her legs move. She set her files on the table and refused to turn her head.She could feel him staring anyway. It burned across her skin like a hand.Don't look, she told herself. Don't give him anything.She looked.Kai's eyes were al
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