Anthony watched from his office across the hall, but Avery didn’t know he was there, and maybe that was better. Because she was tense, her shoulders were tight, with her fingers drumming against the desk, and her eyes scanning the same screen for the third time in five minutes.He felt it immediately, that familiar knot of protectiveness and something else he hadn’t fully admitted to himself. Desire, frustration and guilt for the times he’d underestimated her, dismissed her, even hurt her. And now… now someone else was trying to break her.Anthony’s jaw clenched. He wanted to step in, to shut the door behind him and take control. But he couldn’t, not without betraying the unspoken rules they had always lived by. She needed to solve this on her own, to prove to herself that she was untouchable.He swallowed hard, tension twisting down into his chest. She had been through worse than this, she was Avery Sinclair, but that didn’t stop the unease from creeping in. Someone was testing he
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