Destination Unknown

FEW MONTHS LATER

Jared appeared in my office at noon, tapping his watch. I glanced up from my laptop. “Did you need something?” I asked.

He raised a single, stern brow. “Stella, you promised.”

It had been eight months from that first night we were together in his office, and he was insisting we celebrate with a weekend away. Weekends off were hardly unusual for us— I found myself putting work on h