While Killian recovered, the company was still under attack. Kade moved methodically. He had a forensic accounting firm go through every document that had been accessed by Clover's ghost account. He had his legal team prepare a case. He built it quietly and carefully, the way he did everything. And then one morning he called me into the executive conference room, where a woman I had never seen before was sitting on the wrong side of the table. She was beautiful in a deliberate way. Dark hair, expensive clothes, a particular kind of composure that said she was used to controlling rooms. She looked at me when I walked in with something that was not quite hostility but was certainly not nothing. "Mia Perez, this is Serena Ashworth," Kade said from beside the window. The woman looked at m

