I stand outside Room 4018 for a full minute, listening to my own heartbeat before I finally knock.The door to the Grandeur Hotel suite swings open almost immediately. Foxe Shield is standing in the doorway, and for a second, my brain short-circuits. He isn’t wearing his usual tailored charcoal jacket, his white dress shirt is unbuttoned at the collar, and the sleeves are rolled up to his forearms. He looks relaxed, dangerously relaxed.The heavy scent of expensive champagne drifts out from the candlelit room behind him.“You came,” he says softly.“Don’t flatter yourself,” I reply calmly despite the riot happening in my chest. “I’m here for company property. The flash drive, Foxe. Now.”He doesn’t smirk or offer a witty comeback. He just steps aside and gestures for me to enter.Every survival instinct I have screams at me to stay in the hallway, but if I don’t have that presentation for June’s board meeting tomorrow, my career is over. And if my career is over, Jericho’s surgery dep
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