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Tired of me, Mr. Taylor? Chapter Forty Three
Natalie entered Damian’s office shortly after eleven carrying a package.“This was delivered for you.”Damian finished signing the document in front of him before looking up. “From whom?”“There wasn’t a name. It came by courier.”She crossed the room and placed it on the corner of his desk.Damian recognized the box immediately.His pen stopped between his fingers.Natalie waited, probably expecting some instruction, but Damian gave none. After a moment, she returned to the door.“I’ll let you know when Malcolm arrives.”The door closed behind her.Damian looked at the package.He had expected nothing from Serena after sending the music box. That had been deliberate. No card, no message, nothing that required acknowledgment. He had stayed away from her birthday because appearing there would have been another violation of the distance she had repeatedly asked him to respect.The gift had been different.At least, that was what he had told himself.He pulled the package toward him and
Tired of me, Mr. Taylor? Chapter Forty Two
Serena knew something was wrong when Theo refused to tell her where they were going.“You’ve been trying to figure out where we’re going since we left,” Theo said as the elevator climbed.“Because you haven’t told me anything. You said we were having dinner, but this doesn’t feel like dinner anymore.”“We’re almost there.”Serena glanced at the changing floor numbers. “That still doesn’t tell me where we’re going.”Theo smiled but gave her nothing else.The elevator stopped before Serena could question him again, and the doors opened onto a private penthouse washed in warm light. The first thing she saw was her mother standing beneath an enormous arrangement of white and blush roses.Then everyone shouted.“Surprise!”Serena stopped dead as the penthouse erupted around her. Tessa was already laughing, Claire lifted a champagne glass, and Marjorie looked entirely too pleased with herself. People from Ellis Atelier crowded around friends Serena hadn’t expected to see tonight, while Dani
Tired of me, Mr. Taylor? Chapter Forty One
Damian remained behind his desk after Victor left.The office had gone quiet around him, the city beyond the windows beginning to brighten with evening lights as the last of the daylight disappeared between the buildings.You were afraid of her then.Damian leaned back in his chair and stared through the glass.He had spent most of his life making certain fear never had a meaningful place in his decisions. Fear distorted judgment. It made people careless, reactive, willing to surrender advantages simply to escape discomfort.Victor had been right anyway.Serena had terrified him.Not at first.At first, she had been exactly what they agreed she would be. Beautiful, intelligent, entertaining company without expectations neither of them had promised to meet. Their arrangement had rules, an expiration date and enough distance built into it that Damian had never considered it dangerous.Then, somewhere along the way, the rules had stopped containing anything.Serena began leaving earrings
Tired of me, Mr. Taylor? Chapter Forty
Damian was halfway through reviewing a revised set of figures when Victor walked into his office without knocking.He looked up briefly. “You have an assistant.”“So do you. Neither of them has ever managed to keep me out of a room I intended to enter.”Damian returned his attention to the document. “What do you want?”Victor crossed the office and placed a folder on the desk. “The Arden revisions. Their legal team accepted most of Malcolm’s changes. There are two points they want reconsidered before Friday.”Damian opened the folder and scanned the marked pages. The first amendment was reasonable. The second wasn’t.“No.”“I assumed you’d say that.”“Then why are you here?”“Because assuming what you’ll say and obtaining an answer are generally considered different things.”Damian gave him a look, but Victor merely took the chair opposite him.For several minutes, they discussed the revisions. Damian rejected one, altered another and instructed Victor to have Malcolm prepare the resp
Tired of me, Mr. Taylor? Chapter Thirty Nine
The last run of the afternoon had gone better than the first three.Serena climbed out of the SN-R and pulled off her gloves while Luis and two technicians moved toward the car. The garage was still busy around her, although the sharper energy of active testing had begun to fade. Nina was already reviewing telemetry at one of the workstations, tools were disappearing into drawers, and Daniel stood near the monitors going over the final numbers.Serena reached for her water and saw Damian across the garage.He had arrived sometime during her final testing block.She hadn’t seen him come in, but she had noticed him afterward beside Daniel, dark suit and immaculate tie making him look distinctly out of place among mechanics, equipment and half-open tool cabinets. Whatever had brought him to Street Nation had occupied him for most of the afternoon. He hadn’t approached her or interrupted the session.He had watched her, though.More than once.Three days had passed since the elevator at A
Tired of me, Mr. Taylor? Chapter Thirty Eight
Damian had read Sophie’s message once.He had looked at the photographs considerably longer.By morning, he had decided Sophie was reading too much into them. Laurent picking Serena up from work proved nothing. Damian already knew the man wanted her, and Serena had never pretended she disliked his attention.What he couldn’t dismiss quite as easily was how comfortable she looked.That thought followed him into work, irritatingly persistent despite everything else requiring his attention. Sometime after eleven, Damian realized he had read the same paragraph of a financial report three times.He set the document down and forced his attention back to the meeting.Malcolm was halfway through the next item on the agenda, and when the discussion turned to Damian, he answered without hesitation. Nobody at the table would have known that part of his mind was somewhere outside Ellis Atelier, fixed on a photograph he had no business caring about.By the time the meeting ended, he was thoroughly
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