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CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Adrian Confronts Ava, Alone

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He was on time. Exactly eight o’clock. Not a minute before, not a minute after, which told me something, because men who are genuinely rattled either arrive early or they are late. Adrian Blackwood arrived at precisely the time he said he would, which meant he had been sitting somewhere nearby, waiting for the clock to say it was acceptable to knock.

I opened the door.

He was alone. No Daniel. No assistant with a briefcase, no lawyer hovering at the edge of things. Just Adrian, in a dark jacket
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