Daniel's POVI did not answer it while Aria was still in the room.I looked at the screen. Unknown number. The phone rang twice more while she stood across from me and I stood behind my desk with the six words still in the air between us and something cold moving through me that I was working very hard to keep off my face.I was not entirely succeeding.She was watching me the way she always watched me when something was happening beneath the surface. With the quiet focused attention of a woman who had learned to read the thing underneath the thing and was currently reading it with more accuracy than I was comfortable with."I need to take this," I said.My voice was exactly what it always was. Measured. Level. The voice that ran boardrooms and closed deals and communicated complete control of any given situation.She looked at me for one moment longer than the professional situation required.Then she nodded once.Walked to the door.Opened it.And paused with her hand on the frame t
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