Sebastian's POV "Whatever she told you," Nicole said, "I never touched her.""What do you mean?"The words came out of me flat, giving nothing, and it cost me more than anything I'd said in that doorway so far, because the honest answer was that I had no idea what she was talking about, and the second she knew that, this whole conversation was over.She stepped back from the door, not quite an invitation, more like she needed the distance to keep talking."I only spoke to her," she continued. "I want that clear before anything else. I didn't touch her, I didn't threaten her, I just stood in a parking lot and I talked.""Go on."Just two words. I had learned, across a hundred negotiating tables, that the emptiest words in the language does more work than any full one, because a frightened person can't stand to fill a quiet room with nothing. And thankfully, Nicole couldn't stand it either."She'd just come out of some meeting," she rambled. "I didn't plan it that carefully, Sebastia
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