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Jessa closed her eyes on the last of her tears before she put her hand over his "Yes"
Rowan violated every speed lihway, but she rolled into Atlanta just after dawn Since she’d arrived too early to hit a Starbucks, she stopped at a corab so carafe of coffee at the hot-beverage station water and bags of powdered sugar-covered uilty pleasures She sat on the curb outside the store and dialed home to let Matthias know she’d made it, but he didn’t pick up the line
"Howa shower this hnuts before she popped it into hertook her less than two minutes, and she washed the her hands with the reers dry with her bandanna, she took out the photo of Drew Riordan and studied it
He had pale skin like Queenie, but the glorious blaze of his spiky red hair washed out everything else in the shot He had very dark eyes, but they didn’t look black or brown Navy blue or hunter green, she decided He wasn’t s, but the faint bracketed lines on either side of his very decent mouth made it obvious he did, and often The hump from a broken nose--probably from a schoolyard braith some kid who’d called him Bozo--didn’t spoil his face Neither did the beard he wore triles of his jaw
"Irish," she h he’d been adopted out like the rest of theht color hair"
She tucked away the photo and stood, brushing the light dusting of cruar fro Matthias’s mobile number, but that went almost immediately to voice mail
"This is Ro," she said after the tone "It’s , and I’m here I’ll call in later when I hook up with Drew And I’m worried, so answer one of the phones next time, okay?"
She pocketed her phone and blew out a frustrated breath Queenieto Matt For one thing, she couldn’t--the boss had serious muscle and skill, and he could take her doith one hand tied behind his back She also didn’t think Queenie would try to screith him, at least not physically She watched him the saave away anything, the eyes said it all
"Face it: They’re about to become a couple, and you have to deal with it," she said to herself as she walked to her bike "She’s classy, and he deserves her But she’ll never feed him as well as you have"
Nor would she ever deserve him None of them did
She nodded to an olderup his Lexus, and had just straddled her bike when her phone rang
She answered it without checking the display "About time, boss"
"I’m sorry, but I’m not your boss," a soft, fes to my boyfriend, Andy"
Rowan checked the display, which showed Drew’s irlfriend?"
"I hate to bother you," she said, "but his fa to reach hiency back at hoht away, but this is the only phone he carried with hiht I’d try soe to hi her watch It would take the people nal
"Excuse irl said faintly
"Come on, you people are supposed to be better than this," she taunted "That’s not the only phone he has He has no family and, oops, his name isn’t even Andy"
The sweet tone becaal trouble We know he’s responsible for destroying co the confidentiality clause in his erantly" Roas sorry to see she had only forty seconds left; she was really beginning to enjoy herself "That’s a beautiful word They send you to corporate pretty-speak school or so, babe?"
"We assume Mr Riordan is your friend," the woht and unfriendly now "If he wants to avoid a lengthy prison term, he must return to GenHance at once Perhaps you could--"
Rowansound "Whoops, tio fuck himself" With five seconds to spare Roitched off her phone, pulled off the back, and popped out the battery, heaving it into the road The phone she wiped clean before dropping it into the courtesy container ofcleaner beside the puave her a cautious look "Everything okay there, miss?"