Room to Fall
For a bizarre moment, she had the impression that he was talking about her eating habits and was in the middle of beginning a PowerPoint argument of plausible deniability when he continued.
“They say you are a fixer,” he stated, cutting straight to the chase, and even as her features remained carefully blank an ugly feeling wormed its way through her.
Taunting her mother with the term was one thing, but hearing in in Gianni’s incongruous British accent made it sound like something dirty, sinister, and criminal.
She struggled to keep herself from squirming, meeting his gaze as she let his words fall into the silence of the room, confirming and denying nothing, because when it came down to it
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