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CHAPTER 16: A point unmade

Author: Molly Mae
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CHAPTER 16: A point unmade

The city was like a huge dark mass with tall rising steel and tiny lights blinking back at me from the large floor to ceiling glass windows. The office had long been empty with the nightfall. There was this still quietness I liked that made me stay back to clear my desk long after the staff had left.

My pen hovered over a merger paper I had been trying to go through and approve—or not. Yet my mind kept going back to the conversation I had with the private investigator I hired. According to him, there was dirt to be uncovered on the Bomers. But it might require time and resources. The latter I had, but the former—not so much.

The door suddenly creaked open without a knock. I didn't have to guess. Only one person would be familiar or foolish enough to try that.

Julia.

I didn't take my eyes off the document even as the sound of her heels against the floor indicated her close presence.

There was a brief silence where I could feel her watching me, then,

“You ha
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