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Chapter 11

Seven days of marriage and I had learned his tells.Not because I was looking for them. Because we were in the same space for twelve hours a day and I am not capable of being in a room with someone and not reading them. It's not a skill. It's a damage response that became useful.He took his coffee
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Chapter 12

"I remember that dinner," he said. "I was terrified of him.""Everyone was terrified of him.""Were you?""No," I said. "But I was the only one."He laughed again. Leaned forward this time. "Can I ask you something that isn't about the contract?"I kept my expression easy. "You can ask.""Voss," he
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Chapter 13

"Mireille." Fontaine's voice filled the room. "I got the revised structure. It's good. I have one question on the delivery window.""Go ahead."He walked me through it. Clear question, reasonable concern. I answered. He pushed back on one point — not aggressively, just thinking out loud — and I walk
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Chapter 14

Silence."Is there something you want to say?" I said.He looked at me for a long time. The jaw. The stillness. The thing underneath his expression that he was holding down with both hands and not naming."No," he said."Then—""He called you by your first name," he said.I stopped."On the call Wed
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Chapter 15

He glanced at the screen. Something shifted in his expression. He stood. Walked to the far end of the room — not outside, just to the window — and answered in Czech.I kept working.The call was short. Five minutes. His voice was low — not quiet because of me, just the register he used in that langu
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Chapter 16

I woke up at six and looked at the ring before I looked at anything else.I didn't decide to do it. My eyes opened and it was the first thing they found. The platinum band catching the grey morning light from the window.I put my hand flat on the mattress and looked at the ceiling instead.I had a p
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Chapter 17

He appeared beside me at the moments I needed him. I appeared beside him the same way. Neither of us signaled. Neither of us explained it.I filed this as a professional development.I knew it wasn't.Midpoint. Between conversations. Champagne I wasn't drinking in my hand.I found a quiet edge of th
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Chapter 18

Eight seconds.Then the room came back. All at once. The two hundred people and the cameras and Damon somewhere behind me having stopped moving.I pulled back exactly one inch.We were still close. His hand still at my jaw. And he was looking at me — not the assessment, not the professional register
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Chapter 19

The photographs were everywhere before I finished my first coffee.Isabelle had sent six links at 6 AM with no message attached. She didn't need to write anything. The links said everything.I sat at my desk in yesterday's clothes and I looked at them.There were three angles. The best one — the one
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Chapter 20

I sat in the kitchen alone and I looked at the wall and I thought about that for longer than I should have.Damon called at two.I was alone in the conference room. Nikolai was in a meeting downstairs. I saw the name on the screen and I looked at it for two full rings.I answered.He didn't open wit
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