TERMS OF THE HEART
I was going to be choosing, eyes open, a man I'd told myself I was only pretending to want.
Griffith walked me out after the meeting broke up, and at the elevator he hesitated, the careful neutrality of a lawyer slipping for just a moment. "For what it's worth, Ms Bennett, I've known Damien since he was twenty-four years old, burying his father and trying to hold a company together with both hands. I've never seen him move this fast for anything. Not once."
"Is that meant to reassure me, or warn me?"