ting room on the ground floor, flanked

e toward the ex

etary, stood waiting. He smiled politely, scanning

he sudden weightlessness made Haylee's stomach

inimalist floor. The cold gray and black

of heavy walnut doo

esonant voice comm

sent a sharp jolt of electricity down her spine.

is back to her, looking out the floor-to-

s, Benedict Keit

locked onto hers like a

A violent, inexplicable sense of familiarity hit him in the chest. H

rrational thought away and walked

chair opposite him. She

act onto the desk. "Dr. Mathews. Your resume i

. She scanned the numb

location is a joke,

he conservative financial plan his CFO had drafted. She spoke wi

eating in this chair. Her aggressive, brilliant pu

desk, his presence suffocating. "You're ask

s intensity. "I don't fail. If you don't have the stoma

the door, sucked

agonizing seconds. Then, a low, d

igned his name across the bottom of

"You win, Director. But I want clin

th a quick, sharp motion.

. As Benedict took it, his f

static electricity

Benedict's eyes shot up, landi

ar rested just abo

gainst his ribs. The memory of a woman thrashin

his mout

lew open, slammin

into the room, tears streamin

She threw herself over the edge

ve to do somethin