Chapter 23
Nora's POV
I met Dr. Ethan Cole on a Thursday afternoon.
Julian had put the meeting on my calendar for two o'clock and described it simply as a Hamilton Foundation review. I had agreed to it with the same professional detachment I applied to everything that week, signing off on it between a media strategy session and a call with the outside legal team about the Holt proceedings.
But when Ethan Cole walked into my office, something about the meeting felt immediately different from everything else on my schedule.
He was tall and unhurried in the way that some people are, not slow, just deliberate, like he had made a private agreement with himself never to rush through a room.
He had warm brown eyes and the kind of face that looked like it smiled easily, though he wasn't smi
