Zara's POV
Rachel was sitting on my apartment steps when I got home.
I almost turned around. Almost got back in the car and told Marcus to drive anywhere else. But she had already seen me and she was standing up with the particular energy of someone who had been waiting a long time and was not leaving without answers.
"Six days," she said. "You've been avoiding me for six days."
I walked past her and unlocked the door. "I've been busy."
"With what? Your phone works the same when you're busy."
I held the door open. She followed me inside and I locked it behind us out of habit. Cole's warning sat in my chest like a stone but Rachel was standing in my kitchen looking hurt and worried and I could not reconcile the woman in front of me with someone taking money from Victor Mercer's networ
