ey landscape, but her thoughts were back in the small apartment with Julian. She pulled out the n

the Aethelburg terminal, she sent

st an hour later. A

rom the man who had held her so tightly the night before. She sh

when she got there, a harried-looking teller told her the syste

barricades blocked the intersections, and sleek black cars with tinted wind

xt to her muttered. "They shut down

d the only person she knew in Aethelb

he Sterling Grand. It's the big hotel on the corner. I'll meet

th men in sharp suits and women dripping with jewels. Carley, in her simple jeans and sweater, felt dee

sh seating area. He was handsome, dressed in a ridiculously expensive-looking suit, and

. His gaze lingered-a flicker of interest. He leaned over and murmured

energy and expensive perfume, imme

ery husband," Bridgette demanded after

a sneaky picture of Julian at the construction sit

rying a silver tray with a bottle of champagne

s," the waiter said smoothly, noddi

Slate Sterling raised his glass to the

entitled, presumptuous display. Bridgette, a lawyer who'd se

his assistant. "Find out wh

getting antsy. The man they were here to

was trying to pick up was the wife of

helburg to tie up a loose end, but she had a sudden,