CIARA“See you soon Calista.” I hung up the call with her for the third time I'm less than thirty minutes and exhaled.Beside me, Mathew was a physical mass of radiating heat, his breathing heavy enough to fog the lower corner of the bulletproof glass. The realistic logic of my afternoon—the Baltic compliance files, the Harvour non-disclosure settlement, the damage control—was perfectly calculated. Yet, my own pulse, which I had maintained at a steady sixty-four beats per minute in front of James’s mistress, was beginning to deviate."The files will be ready," I stated, not looking at him as I unbuttoned the top two fasteners of my wool coat. The heat in the vehicle was set to an optimal twenty-one degrees, but my skin felt uncharacteristically warm. "We have twenty-two minutes before we get home, Mathew. You need to chill, there's a meeting waiting for us at home.""I need to chill?"His voice was a gravelly, dangerous sound from the dark corner of the leather bench. Before I could
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