Scarlett’s POV I saw Liana's car at the gate. I saw her step out with her files. I also watched the handshake and the extra beat of it, plus the small, quiet thing she said that made his expression go neutral in a way that meant he was choosing his words carefully.I nodded at him and went inside.I did not examine the nod afterward. It was the only thing available that was honest and did not cost me my composure in a forecourt full of bikers, and I was grateful my body had found it without being asked.I went to the east wall, room, and sat on the edge of, the cot and held the U, waiting.The knock arrived an hour later. “You can come in,” I ordered, because I already sensed from the sound of the footsteps in the corridor who it was. I knew those steps, and no other person would have them except Dominic. Dominic’s footsteps had a particular quality, a slow, deliberate rhythm, as though he had been trained to move through spaces that had been lectured on how to accommodate him.He o
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