Pain pressed against Hailey's chest until she could barely breathe.
'Wait another three months?'
A bitter smile touched her lips. 'So even those three short months have been nothing more than a foolish wish I have forced on him.'
She stepped back and raised a hand to silence Ford before he could ask what was wrong. Then she returned alone to the operations trailer assigned to her.
The temperature dropped sharply overnight. Hailey sat beneath the desk lamp, suppressing her coughs while she reviewed field supply reports.
Serrano Group had committed nearly eighty percent of its core personnel to the conflict with Northgate. They could not afford to lose.
Hailey had volunteered to oversee the front because she knew her presence would keep the executives at headquarters from deliberately
