line
ng coldly as Kelsie and the two broad-shouldered
ch he
rms over her chest,
is smuggling more of Apex's confi
esitant glance before taking
top of the cardboard box and swe
a police warrant, and my lawyers will make su
acks, their hands hovering
past the guards, her heels clicking
nobody getting kicked to the cur
lashed through the air, m
nd out, caught her wrist mid-air,
er grip loosened, and the thirty-thousand-dollar limited-ed
et, I lifted my right foot and hooked t
in a clean arc and landed with a wet thud right inside the oversiz
. Across the aisle, two junior secretaries clappe
hree full seconds before letti
oline, you c
grease, pulled a sanitizing wipe from my desk
er, trash belongs
pe into the small was
your bag, and i
e, Kelsie raised her fr
ward. She stumbled in her sky-high heels and co
and I'll show you what lega
" I said without raising my voice.
wrist on the couch, then picked up my cardboard box and wal
hed. I took the elevator down to the lobby, walked out into the b
e penthouse on Seven
ress of Kiel's apartment,
of the penthouse where I had lived for the past two years. The door
ed only the basic clothes and laptop I had bought with my own salary. In the walk-in closet, rows of couture gow
ced my spare house key, the building fob, and his supplement
until the deadbolt clicked into place, took the elevator down, and rol
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