hed, but I kept my teeth togethe
just enough to sound wounded. "If you didn't drink your tea while the old
st hard enough for me to feel the hard callus along his index finger. For an executive who spent his day
asting the word like it was a
s, memorized until the syllables rolled off my tongue without thought.
ng in the cool, conditioned air of the room. He stepped back around his desk,
room. Taylor will be watching you on the feed. If I find a single speck of
. Thank y
p and the tray, turned on my heel,
ftly against the hardwood as I rounded the corner toward the stairs. My chest felt hot, pa
ht the slip with my hands downstairs, and now he was testing my react
hallway, I saw Taylor Cooper leaning a
a silver stylus. The camera feed from the second floor was playi
" Taylor said, not loo
slightly bowed as I held the tray with b
is dark eyes fixing on my face with cold, clinical curiosity. "Most
pilled it on his floor," I said simpl
h in his expression, only the patient assessment of a man who
et against his thigh. "I called the head of security ov
cted cleaning crews, Mr. Cooper. We wore green shirts and clocked in through the service b
tilted his head, watching t
ile and tax records to my personal terminal by two o'clock. If the numbers
erate force. He didn't apologize. He just kept walking toward the private study
o'cl
hree hours and
sixty seconds. The agency cover would collapse, and by three o'clock,
on the cold tap. I splashed cold water onto my face, wiped it dry
master suite was locked down, and Taylor w
t only o
study on the
nside that room, the physical server for the mansion had to be located in the same hub. If I c
drive and corrupt the transfer before
me from the pantr
pkins for the weekend dinner. She dropped them onto the stainless steel
said the formal dining room needs to be set for four guests by one o'
kly on my apron. "Har
adjusting her apron. "And keep the side doors unlocked. Mr. Mo
bor aut
arned me about before the p
ine inspection lunch. I
fake papers. I would be standing in the room with a tray in my hand
king up the box of polished silverwar
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