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“Have you?”

Shaking her head, she held up a fossilas a cell phone “Can I borrow yours? Mine died, and I didn’t bring a charger”

I stared “Who in this day and age still has a flip phone?” I asked, handing mine to her

“I know, right?” She laughed She was so close to me I smelled her perfume… lilies “But I have a sentimental attachment to this antique”

“Fro I was about to ask her so of her past

“Cleo, it’s me,” she said into the phone as she went toward the“Oh no, you don’t care I’ve been gone all day, and neither of you bothered to call, write, or even send a carrier pigeon?”

I grinned then stopped the round

“Theo,” she called, and when I turned to her, she handed me the phone “I just needed it for a quick second to check in My roo”

She rushed past lanced at the phone and clicked the call log Just like I figured, she’d deleted the number

She really doesn’t want anyone to know her

What was she so scared I would find out?

Checking to make sure she was in my room, I dialed as I stepped away from the stairs

>“Sir” My assistant answered

“I need you to do a background check on someone The na” Not waiting to hear confir up

When I turned around, she was standing in theout at the view, but I was sure she’d heard me