00:00The hallway light was hospital cold.
00:02Elias walked out of the office and his suited silhouette cast a clean, isolated shadow across the gray marble.
00:09He met Arthur head on.
00:11In that one second, the air went thick with the powder smell of two apex predators sizing each other up.
00:17Arthur's smile was wide and false.
00:19Elias gave back a light curve of the mouth that didn't reach his eyes.
00:24I moved fast.
00:25As they were passing each other, I stepped out between them.
00:29I called his name Soft.
00:31My fingertips wound around his cuff like a small, clever snake.
00:35I could feel Arthur's eyes contract sharp behind me, but I went on like there was nobody else in the
00:41corridor.
00:41Went up on my toes and adjusted Elias's collar with quick, soft fingers.
00:46I told him in a wife's tone, don't drink so much tonight.
00:50As I pulled my hand back, I let it rest just for half a second over the warm spot above
00:55his heart.
00:55The unfamiliar tenderness threw him a little, but he caught my look, read the suggestion in it, and silently let
01:03the show called We're Sleeping Together Play.
01:05In the elevator, along with him, I climbed up like an enchanted vine and pressed a slow wet kiss against
01:11the high bridge of his nose.
01:12Is the acting real, Elias?
01:16If you feel it's real, it's real.
01:19Then the tires ground over snow, and the Bentley pulled away.
01:23I stood at the curb, watching the taillights shrink down the block.
01:27Both Serafina and her secret lover had already smelled blood by now.
01:31Meanwhile, the construction site blowing up in the press had stripped the last of the mystery off the Millennium Vixen
01:37name.
01:38Old enemies looking for payback were starting to surface, one by one.
01:41I needed leverage, so I disappeared.
01:44Playing hard to get has always been my specialty.
01:47Next day, I was on the road, foot heavy.
01:50I deliberately killed every call from the secretary, and let the fuse called Worry Burn in Elias's chest for a
01:57full eight minutes.
01:58When the phone lit up with his name, I knew I'd won.
02:03Elias
02:06So that's the play.
02:08Lie and run.
02:12I didn't get the money.
02:14I didn't get the man.
02:18If I don't run, am I supposed to wait around?
02:21For Mr. Elias to drop me in a hole?
02:25Lofi, don't make me come find you.
02:34I didn't get the wind.
02:34I didn't get the money.
02:35I didn't get my tiempo.
02:35I want to get the money.
02:35I want to get the money.
02:35I want you to open it up.
02:35I want you to open it up.
02:35So that's the Excuse bringt,
02:36you see
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