ClaraThe one word that appeared on the glowing screen, seemed like ice cold water put straight down my spine.Boston.Cemeteries of memories came to the surface: the scent of rain on cheap asphalt, the buzz of fluorescent lights in the library, the small room where I cried myself hoarse until my ribs ached, seven years of it all. This time, Richard Vane did not intend to arrest me for corporate espionage. He was pursuing our genealogy.He had a scalpel in his hand and was holding it over the very nerve that Sebastian had been agonizing over during the last seven years, trying to sever.With my voice barely audible over the quiet hum of the laptop fan, I whispered, "He found it. "The lease records. The campus registry. My name next to Julian Vance."Sebastian didn't speak right away. The air around him was arctic, dark, thick and suffocating with some dark fury. The one who had been kissing me on the lips until the pain was unbearable had vanished, and now there was a predator knotted
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