ogy. Katharina stepped into the foyer. She pressed her thumb against the biometric scanne

tan skyline bled through the floor-to-ceiling windows,

at she had convinced Grafton to buy three years ago. She went straight to t

oset. It was the bag she used for "site visits"-her code for th

opy of Gray's Anatomy. She bypassed the jewelry box. The diamond tennis bracelets, the Patek Philipp

irs. The vibration traveled up

on the floating stair

e slung it over her shoulder

acket on the leather sofa and was loosening his tie with jerky, violent

button on his desk p

e guest chair. She stood in the center of

the Bloomberg terminal screens mounted on the

he asked, his back to her. "How much is it go

Grafton," Katharina sai

pt over her plain clothes, the chea

lowance is discretionary. The credit cards are supplementary. You don't ev

ocket and pulled out a folded piece of paper. S

years. Proprietary compound formulation, schedule coordination, crisis

sneered. "You think being a famil

d a glass of whiskey. The amber li

pologize for the scene at the gala, an

word she said. He was incapable of hearing her. To him, she was just backg

ard for her suite off its lanya

card on top of the

n the silence of the room,

oward the door. Her boots mad

a!" Graft

her hand on t

ster, "and you are cut off. From everything. I will enforce every clause

breath hitched. The image of Ainsley leaning on Harlow's s

ghtly. She didn't look

her choice," Katharina sai

down. Whiskey sloshed over

d her. She walked to the foyer, placed her main access fo

the elevator. Sh