Unfinished Business

Declan

Avery stared at me, her mouth a tight line. She leaned back in her chair and folded her arms. For a long moment, she simply observed me, the way she used to study complicated contracts before finding their fatal flaws.

"You drove all the way from New York," she finally said, her voice cool and measured, "wasting your precious CEO time, just to ask why I left the job five years ago?" She s