SEVEN DAYS TO SAY FOREVER
The silence that followed was immediate, broken only by the steady, rhythmic bubbling of the thermal jets.
I looked at her profile, the steam curling around her jaw. My head ached from six months of balance sheets, hostile takeovers, and the crushing weight of Arthur Blackwell's sins. But sitting three feet from her, the numbers in my mind finally went quiet. I had spent twelve years calculating the distance between us, waiting for her to realize Dominic was an empty investment. Now that she was sitting in my space, wearing my ring, none of those years seemed to matter anymore.