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bsidian Club's top-floor restaurant, the city lights stretched out like a r

white tablecloth, Barrett used the separate silver serving chopsticks with effortless grace. For a man who ran a modest

entrées had made my eyelids twitch. Running a small import business in this economy was brutal

ile as we finished our coffee, setting my linen n

I turned the corner out of his sight, I bypassed the restroom

credit card from my clutch and handing it to the flo

e for a split second when he saw the table number, though he quickly ma

irr, I signed my name quickly and tucked my copy i

ex's overseas copyright team in London. It was the perfect excuse to w

rett, my office just sent over an urgent overseas contract that needs my signature tonigh

urprise crossing his deep gray-blue eyes as he

e he could object, giving him a brief nod before tu

t Craf

ator doors slide shut behind Katherine's slender fi

es across both the Union and the Concord, I had never once

e had hurried out just to spare my male pride. The mix of sharp independence and quiet ki

one buzzed hard. A three-page message from the p

nt yesterday, offering two deep-water port equity sh

rom my eyes, replaced by the fre

by a notch. A silent, crushing wave of frost-and-cedar pheromones rolle

oes not deal with oath-breakers. Pull all capital from the

on his forehead as he held out the merchant copy of the receipt. "Sir... M

d to a calm drawl. "Have the back office issue a Supreme VIP Black Ca

harges directly to my private family trust, and del

the private executive elevator leading straight down to the unde