”She trudged slowly around past the front of the car and clicked the door open. Phil started to feel a bit sick, and shrank his body back against t...e padding of his seat, not wanting to be here at all. He should’ve just let Terry take her away to the site himself tonight, and then waited for them to come back again. But then again, heaven knows what this bastard would do with her left alone.Kiara got in, and tried to make herself comfortable, then slammed the door shut, grabbing her seatbelt.. I had put the Manhattan apartment on the market, and we had been discussing, between other duties, how to deal with the house which cost about $3000 a month to maintain if the taxes were included.Amy's father and his beautiful bookkeeper had stripped the family's accounts bare and fled the country, taking the brokerage assets with them, more than ten million. In one day the woman and her daughter had fallen out of the upper class and were barely clinging to the middle. There would be no more. Was my first royalty check ready, and they wanted my Social Security number? Nah, too soon. Product development takes time, and then there's testing and -. The phone hadn't stopped. "Marcus speaking." This is the Office of the Chairman calling." The female operator had a nice voice, and familiar. Was this the same person who'd delivered the contract for me to sign? I couldn't forget her if I tried. She was diminutive - I never call a woman short - with a button nose. She might be able to pass. "I've wondered where you've been all day." She shimmied against me in a very agreeable way. "I was hoping you'd stay with me another night before heading home."She was acting like nothing was going on. Like the world was simply moving along outside her door like it should. Was it an act? Was she really innocent?Theodore's memories told me, no.I shook my head and stepped back from Fiona, forgetting even to try to command her to change her plans.She let me go and studied me. "Now I know.