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st as Ethan's voice echoe

a dinner meeting, in the up part of town and C

Why was

e only sound was my own ragged breathing, the quiet hum of the laptop still open

ds or even

in a blur of panic. There was no time to backtrack and no way I'd make it down

olted for it and slipped inside, closing the door gently but

as I tried to steady my breathing. Th

she's not picking up. Keep trying

e long conference table. My fingers trembled as I clutc

ed, his footsteps pacing the room. "So

en laughed-co

still dumb enough to believ

t const

like this, so unfiltered, so casually cruel, was like acid d

ocket. I silenced it in a hear

If Piper finds out what I did, it could

od ran

was bigger than I thought. No wonder Selena was back. No wonder

another voice spoke up-someon

uspects anything

myself from

ight," Ethan said with a smirk in his tone. "She's unraveling, th

rmured. "What if she talk

er's too proud

istening to m

om crouching, my fingers numb around the f

, Ethan. If she figures out who C.H. is, this

under control

ught---"You have no

he door again, and

Ethan aske

love." They pressed there lips together and kissed

slammed and silence r

as I stood and every sound felt amplified-my heartbeat in my ears, the c

slit in the blinds. The hallway

through the underground garage. My breath came out in short bursts, fogging in the ch

olid proof than what was on this flash drive and I su

. I needed to get

the street suddenly suspicious. I kept glancing behind me,

to Cameron's office,

lding w

lass door. "Cam!

opened a crack. "Piper? Are you cr

than. He is trying to get something done and Sele

questions, he opened

messages from the email appeared. It wasn't everything,

"Selena didn't come back because she needed a job, Ethan

s is serious, Piper. If what you say is true, they c

who C.H. is. That name kept coming up. He

the initials through every

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the screen......

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