What He Never Let Go Of
"I'll pick you up at seven."
"Where are we going?"
"That," he said, straightening off the doorframe, "is the one part of this I'm not telling you."
He picked her up at seven, and she almost didn't recognize him at first — dark jeans, a simple charcoal sweater, no tie, no armor of tailored wool, hair slightly less severe than the office version he wore like a second suit. It struck her, watching him come up the narrow stairs to knock instead of texting from the car, that she was seeing a version of Adrian nobody at Voss Enterprises ever got to see.