The kiss broke, but the taste of him lingered a coppery tang of my own blood and the smoky, masculine flavor of Liam. I was breathing hard, my chest rising and falling with a frantic, desperate rhythm. In the floor-to-ceiling window, I saw our reflection, a distorted, ghostly tableau. And for the first time, I really saw us.I saw myself, Clara. Not the redundant, hollowed-out corporate drone, but this woman in a black silk dress. My own reflection was a stranger, high cheekbones flushed with color and whiskey, lips swollen and red, my dark hair a wild, tangled mess around my shoulders. I wasn't tall, maybe five-foot-five, but in that moment, reflected in the glass of a skyscraper, I felt ten feet tall. I felt dangerous.And then I saw them. Liam, a study in beautiful contradictions. He was tall, well over six feet, with the lean, wiry build of a swimmer or a climber, all long lines and corded muscle. His hair was a shock of black, almost blue-black, agai
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