Broadcasting Network, packing her lapt
reen lit up
saw Adelaide's name f
phone and read the
alone. There was a blonde woman with
loud, genuine s
credibly lazy. It was insu
b straight to Wall Street. She had screamed at Morgan, tried to kick down Garrison's door, and ended up being dragged out
a single ounce of
n. She opened Adelai
e screen. Her thumb hovered over the
pressed
ox popped up. Sh
e Collier was erased fr
tisfaction washed over her. It felt like she had just scrap
let out a
starving, and she knew
and stepped onto the crowded Manhatt
k out. She opened her te
didn't craft a careful, strat
BQ. It's loud and messy and smells
hit
bubbles to appear. She shoved the phone in her pocke
at the Harvey Gr
a claustrophobic, glas
rs who were arguing loudly over the liability clause
his personal cell phone
s posture
ed into his pocket and pulled the phone out, keepi
ed the
d up.loud and messy an
stared at
estaurant filled with smoke and unpredictable strangers was
again, a strange, tight f
ng, eating, completely unbothered by the chaos. He felt
the screen for a
on's distraction and slowly st
of a second. Logic won. He couldn't do
ard over his shoulder to Morgan, who wa
e screen twice wit
ad the text. He understood t
encrypted work phone and
arding the Wall Street merger and will be u
ched Morgan
rough, a dark, heavy wave of i
. He was angry at himself for saying no. He hated t
ck to the lawyers. He rapped his knuc
und made the
t the contract, his eyes demandi
lked out of the 34th Street
ed it out and read Morgan'
he didn't feel a s
ior, she thought.
the neon lights and the incredible
BBQ restaurant. K-pop music was blasting from the speakers.
ct opposite of
zer, rolled up the sleeves of her silk blouse, and ordered t
started grilling it on the table, the
herself a s
oward the window, looking ou
Cassie whispe
, clean path down her throat. She picked up her ch
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