Series: Beneath her Notice

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Chapter Eleven: Plausible Deniability

The accident could not honestly be repeated.

It could, however, be reconstructed.

“Start again,” Elena instructed.

She left the floor with the Mannheim folder, waited five minutes, and returned. Mara continued working in her Casadei Blades. Adrian remained hidden.

None of them knew he was there.

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Chapter Twelve: The First Concession

Elena returned before Mara could remove the Casadeis.

Adrian remained beneath the desk, his fingers still held under their chrome heels. Mara stood above him with her hands upon her hips, her face composed except for the colour beneath her pale skin.

Elena closed the door.

“I thought you were leaving,” Mara said.

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Chapter Thirteen: Domestic Arrangements

Adrian did not move into Mara’s apartment all at once.

First came a toothbrush, then shirts in the guest-room wardrobe, books upon the table and a coffee cup Mara would never have chosen.

Three weeks later, she handed him a key.

“You’re here more often than you aren’t. This is administratively simpler.”

“Administratively?”

Mara looked down at the Casadei Blades upon her feet.

“Get under the table.”

“Much clearer.”

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Epilogue: The Usual Meeting

The final day began as the first had.

By the time Elena Voss reached the thirty-eighth floor, the building had arranged itself in anticipation.

She wore charcoal, her dark hair secured in its immaculate twist. Black Louboutins completed the figure of the sophisticated British chief executive who could silence a boardroom by removing her glasses.

Adrian arrived at eleven. Continue reading “Beneath her Notice – Epilogue 0 (0)“