My heart leapt. So it was over. I could leave the apartment again.
In the first weeks of the contract, being confined to these rooms had not bothered me. But after Seattle, after the gallery, after that quiet dinner with Damon that I was still pretending hadn't rearranged something inside my ribs, curling back into the silence of this apartment had begun to feel like a hand around my throat.
I had even bookmarked a couple of interior design events happening in the city this week.
"The bounty itself is still live." Darius set down his fork. "Until we identify the buyer behind the three men in Seattle, the listing stays up. For now that's enough to scare off the rest of the network, but anyone reckless could still try. Which means I stay on you."
"Oh."
"That said." His grey eyes flicked
