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“Hello,” Alice’s voice came into the phone in a hush as soon as Lombard answered the call. “You okay?” he asked as he got into the car. “Actually, I’m not sure. I’m calling you from the restroom because I don’t want Abigail to know about this. Mireya called me a few seconds ago and said she’d like to have a discussion with me, if that’s okay. I didn’t give her an answer, I just told her I’d check my schedule and get back to her. She wouldn’t tell me exactly what she wants to discuss.” “Are you free today?” Lombard asked as he started the car. “Yes. Basically,” she said. “You can call her back and tell her that you’ll be free. In the meantime, can we meet up now? You don’t have to tell Abigail about it.” “She won’t let me leave the house, not after everything that happened to me. Even now, she’s in the kitchen whipping something together for me,” she said. Lombard let out a soft groan. “I’m coming over. You and I are going out after, and we can talk. In the meantime, don’t tell
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“This is Cassian, from the Belmont family,” the voice at the other end said. And it was no doubt Cassian’s voice. “I was wondering if we could have a fun chat this evening. Just the two of us. At my restaurant. You’re already aware of it, right?” “Yes. I mean, I’ll find my way around with the internet,” Sylvie said, as if she didn’t already go to that same restaurant regularly, sunglasses on, hoping one of these days she’d get lucky enough to run into Cassian and actually have a real conversation with him. “To save the hassle, I’ll send you the restaurant’s address after this call ends. I hope I already have your word that you’ll show up?” Cassian asked. “I have a lot of deadlines lined up for today, but of course, you have my word,” Sylvie lied through her teeth. She had already mentally cleared her entire schedule the second she saw it was Cassian calling. “If you don’t mind, you can tell me what this is all about, though,” she quickly added. “There’s a young man called Lombard
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The hitman was already raising the metal rod. A clean shot. Directly toward Lombard’s head.Lombard saw it immediately. Unfortunately, if he simply dodged, Sylvie would likely end up taking the hit. And that sounded like paperwork. Too much paperwork. So instead, he grabbed her, pulled her down with him. The two of them crashed onto the couch. The rod cut through empty air.The hitman froze. Not because he had missed. Because Lombard had reacted. Properly. Instantly. The man’s expression shifted, a tiny frown appearing. For years he had practiced. Perfecting timing. Perfecting strikes. Perfecting movement. Missing wasn’t what bothered him. The reaction did. Because if Lombard could read that attack so easily, then either the hitman wasn’t as good as he thought, or Lombard was much better than expected. Neither answer sat well with him.The man stepped closer, raised his hand. A testing motion. Nothing more. Lombard didn’t react. Not even slightly. That somehow made things worse. T
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“You have something about you.” Sylvie studied him carefully, the same way a scientist might stare at a strange specimen and wonder what would happen if they took it apart. “Has anyone ever told you that?”Lombard considered it. “I’ve been called an asshole,” he counted on his fingers. “A narcissist.” Another finger. “Too full of myself.” Another. “Inconsiderate.” Another. “And, on a few special occasions, completely useless.” He shrugged. “But nobody has ever told me I have a spirit.”Sylvie didn’t laugh, which immediately told Lombard she wasn’t talking about what he thought she was talking about. “I think you have a carefree spirit.” Her eyes remained fixed on him. “The kind that attracts people.”Lombard’s smile weakened. That tone. That was the same tone that made people pay absurd amounts of money to hear her speak. She had a dangerous gift. The ability to make someone feel understood. Special. Seen. It was the kind of thing people became addicted to.“You have a way of bringing
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Lombard had stopped by Sylvie’s apartment. She had still been a mess when he left her the previous night, so he came back to check on her. Not because it was any of his business. It absolutely wasn’t. Unfortunately, there was still a part of him that cared about things he had no business caring about. One of those things happened to be whatever emotional disaster Sylvie was currently dealing with.He rang the bell once. Only once. A few seconds later, the apartment door opened. Lombard stepped inside.The place looked exactly like the kind of apartment someone like Sylvie would own. Expensive. Ridiculously expensive. The building itself sat inside one of the most secure residential complexes in New York. The kind where random people didn’t just wander in. Celebrities loved places like this. The security alone was worth millions. Lombard still wore a face cap. Old habits.Sylvie was sitting on a couch, wrapped in an oversized hoodie, her hair completely out of control, like she had s
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She crossed the room, walked directly toward a particular drawer, and froze in front of it.The drawer wasn’t actually Lombard’s. It never had been. He hadn’t even lived here long enough to claim ownership of anything. No. It was her drawer. A drawer she had created because of him.The realization should have embarrassed her. Instead, she slowly opened it and immediately found herself staring at the collection of little things she had never quite managed to throw away. There was only one thing inside. The phone.Mireya picked it up immediately. The battery warning flashed the moment the screen lit up. She frowned and hurried over to the socket, plugging it in before the device could die. The screen finally stabilized. For a few seconds, she simply stared at it. Then she opened the messages.Lombard’s messages. There were hundreds of them. Far more than she remembered. Far more than she had ever replied to.A strange feeling settled over her as she scrolled. For all his pretending, f
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