Liam Carter walked into their lives on a Tuesday.
Aurora had not been expecting him. She had thought about him occasionally since the fundraiser, in the vague way you think about someone who made a pleasant impression and then remained at the edge of things. He had called once more after the first time and she had not called back and she had assumed that was the end of it.
It was not the end of it.
She was in the hotel lobby.
Damian had brought her along to a brief meeting at one of his city properties that morning, more because they had been making an effort to spend time together in ordinary ways than for any professional reason. She had sat in the lobby with a coffee and her book while he met with his management team on the upper floor.
She was three pages into a new chapter when s
