I didn't sleep. Not really.
I lay in bed and turned what Kade had said over and over in my head until the words stopped making sense and started just feeling like something pressing on my chest.
He remembered. He said he remembered and then he walked away.
I woke up the next morning with a headache and a decision. I was going to ask him directly. No more waiting. No more building up to it carefully. I had been circling this for weeks and I was done with it.
I got to the office early, went straight to his floor, knocked on the door.
He wasn't there.
Madeline told me he had a breakfast meeting in Midtown that would run until ten. I went back to my desk and tried to work. By the time ten-thirty came and went with no word from him, I was on edge enough that when Killian knocked on my off
