Chapter Nineteen
Bryan Joyce made his way to Scott Hemmingway’s tenth floor office, while trying to keep the thermostat on his body set to calm. He was not a furious man, even when he was furious. But this was one time he considered breaking every rule of proper behavior he painstakingly followed.
“I’m here to see Scott,” he announced to the secretary, sitting primly at the desk, just outside Scott’s office.
“Do you have an appointment?”
“No. Tell him it’s Bryan and I’m here to talk about Paige.”
“I’ll see if something can be arranged,” the officious woman remarked. That was Bryan’s clue to back off, but he wasn’t particularly interested in following her agenda. Waiting by her desk, he watched as she paused, and then reluctantly picked up the phone to call Scott. “Bryan to see you, no
