Chapter Seventeen

GAVIN

The jet was already prepped when we arrived. I barely glanced at the attendant who greeted us with a polite nod—I was focused on the day ahead, on the file in my hand, on everything except the fact that Lara was walking up the steps just behind me.

She’d done this before. It wasn’t new to her. Still, she walked in like the space itself annoyed her. Like every polished surface and stitched le