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ust told me you love me. You also stalked me. You hired me

sides. "You don't remember me. You don't remember us. Every day I watch you look at me lik

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the glass surfa

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desk slowly. I look

rules. No explanat

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ask about the n

topped on t

t ten minutes telling me you love me. But I'm not

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are cont

flection ghostly in the dark glass. "Victor Harrington has destroyed three companies. Two marriages. One life. He

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fe ones-and each piece will make you trust him more. And when you trust him co

the paper. Read

ctor. These protect you from me

e. Pain. Guilt. The same expression

d. "Maybe that's

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ing she cared. And she couldn't afford to care about a man who had b

elevator wa

tors were slow, crowded, always stopping. The private elevator w

iates and legal assistants. Let strangers press their sho

day, she u

solation. Damien didn't want her in the public elevators becau

break room. Every name she learned from the building directory-each one was a p

talking to an

ay, she

-

wing hau

ors on the forty-first floor, she felt something pull at her

she asked Lydia what w

ut her eyes went cold. "Storag

is there a

ood values h

shing Lydia was like pushing water-the sur

he dreamed of

floors were white. Everything was clean and empty and e

lked to

e sheets. A single r

nightstand,

oke up

t she remembered the feeling-grief, sharp and sudde

-

brought a knock on

bathrobe, hair wet, co

tood in t

, no jacket. He looked younger like this. More h

ke rule n

linked.

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sence made her small apartment feel smaller. "You're not sleeping. You're not eating.

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not to take i

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cuse

. Tired. The same exhaustion she s

," he said. "If you're in it, I'm in it. That's the rule

er coffee d

one in an enclosed space with someo

om went

you talki

from his pocket. Unlock

was alrea

in an elevator very similar to the ones at Blackwo

he door

stepped

video

man-" He took his phone back. "That man worked for Victor. And three minutes

legs g

Stared at her hands.

ng Victor did

n front of her. Took her hands in his. "You are not a pawn, Aria. You are t

n't I remembe

he hotel elevator. The way he had looked at her in his office. The way

o erase you," he said. "

led her h

ased my

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aused with his hand on the handle. "It's

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couch until the

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