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“Oh my gosh. So what does this mean for us?” I asked as I stared at Liam across the conference table, still struggling to process what he had just told me.Liam rubbed both hands over his face before leaning back in his chair, and the exhaustion in his eyes made him look older than he had only a few hours ago. “It means we move into damage-control mode immediately,” Liam said as he exhaled heavily. “My lawyers are already on their way here because we need to discuss our options before this gets any worse.”I frowned and folded my arms across my chest. “You really think it can get worse than losing one of our biggest clients?” I asked as I watched him carefully.Liam let out a humourless laugh. “I think it can always get worse,” Liam said as he looked toward the conference room door. “Especially when Camilla is involved.”Before I could respond, the door opened, and several sharply dressed lawyers entered the room carrying folders, laptops, and enough paperwork to make me nervous.One

"This is why I'm glad I don't have any kids," I said as I stared down the hallway toward the closed bedroom door.Liam laughed under his breath."You say that like you have a choice tonight," Liam said as he set his laptop bag down on the kitchen counter.I didn't get to respond before the door creaked open and a small head poked out, hair a wild halo around her face, eyes far too alert for a child who should have been asleep twenty minutes ago."I need a story," the girl announced as she padded into the hallway in her socks, dragging one foot like the effort of walking was simply too much to bear."You already had two stories," I said as I crouched down to her eye level."I need one more," she said as she clutched a stuffed rabbit missing one ear to her chest."That's not how this works, Lily," I said as I gently steered her back toward her room.She planted her feet and looked past me, straight at Liam, sizing him up the way only a child can, without any pretence of subtlety."Who's

Liam stood up from his chair, his eyes searching my face for an explanation."What was that about?" Liam asked as he set the laptop down on the table, the screen still glowing faintly between us.I looked down at the phone in my hand like it might explain itself if I stared long enough."Amanda and Daniel aren't coming home tonight," I said as I finally set the phone on the counter, the words sounding stranger out loud than they had in my head. "They're getting a hotel room."Liam's eyebrows lifted slightly, and for a second, neither of us said anything at all."She did that on purpose," I said as I let out a short laugh, crossing my arms over my chest. "I'd bet money on it.""Of course she did," Liam said as he leaned back against the table, watching me with an expression I couldn't quite read.The kitchen felt smaller again, the same way it had a few minutes earlier, except now there was no flimsy excuse left to hide behind. No work email pulling his attention away, no phone call wa

Liam stepped inside and shut the door behind him with a quiet click, like he was sealing the two of us into something fragile that might shatter if he moved too fast. I watched him glance around my living room as if he hadn't been in it before when I hated him. His eyes continued to linger on the couch, the blanket I'd just folded, the coffee mug still on the side table from the last time I had breakfast here."You can stop looking around like you've never seen this place," I said as I hung my jacket on the hook by the door, trying to settle the nervous flutter in my chest."I'm just trying to figure out what I agreed to," Liam said as he turned back to me, a slow grin spreading across his face. "A whole day with no meetings, no calls. I don't think I remember how that works.""You survive," I said as I walked past him into the kitchen, pulling open the fridge to see what I actually had. "Mostly by eating whatever's in here and complaining about it.""Sounds promising," Liam said as h

"Do you think we're all going to lose our jobs?" Amy asked as she wrapped both hands around her mug like it could anchor her to the table."I don't know," I said as I shook my head slowly, watching the steam curl off my coffee. "But Liam wouldn't let that happen. He's been working nonstop trying to contain this.""Easy for you to say," Amy said as she let out a short, humourless laugh. "You're sleeping with the guy who's supposed to fix it."I felt my face go warm and pressed my lips together to keep from smiling too wide. "That's not fair," I said as I nudged her foot under the table. "I'm just as scared as you are.""Are you, though?" Amy asked as she tilted her head, studying me in that way she did when she already suspected the answer. "Because right now you look like someone who just got good news, not someone worried about unemployment.""I'm not glowing," I said as I rolled my eyes, even though I could feel the heat creeping further up my neck. "I just think things will work ou