Chapter 770

Snow was falling over Eastbourne again that morning.

Lydia stood by the floor-to-ceiling window of her hotel room, watching sanitation workers below shovel the accumulated snow toward the curbs and expose the gray-blue asphalt beneath.

Her phone buzzed twice on the nightstand. She crossed the room and picked it up. It was a message from Garrett.

Garrett: [Lydia, did you sign the contract?]

She typ