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This time, she looks stunned “You’re a … what?”

“A reporter I got laid off, but I kno to get a mass press release out that will draw attention” I’ll be helping others and helping my own career

“Oh … well, yes Thank you I—” The lobby door opens, and her gaze jerks beyond me

I turn to find Terrance standing there, and he is as good-looking as I remember but not nearly as friendly In fact, at the moment, his handsome face is carved with soMr Ward

He gives me a short nod “Kali”

I lift , but his attention has already moved away from me to Natalie “Time to leave,” he says to her

She pushes to her feet “I assumed you were here to walk me out”

“As promised,” he replies, and there is none of the friendliness in his tone that he’d shown ht before

“I need my personal items,” she says

“We’ll talk in the hallway” is his response, and I have this sense that if she asks for her pictures again, he will have her arrested It doesn’t make sense

Natalie hugs herself, then gives me a sympathetic look “Good luck,” she says softly, before defiantly lifting her chin and walking toward the door

Terrance does not follow her, his blue eyes landing hard on me “Is there a problem I should know about?”

My fingers dig into the chair I’ here for two hours when my boss wants me at my desk, no”

“Ms Miller”

My head jerks at the fa,” I say,to Terrance’s silent coaze back to him