Rhys POV
Seven days.
I have been watching her for seven days and I have not yet decided what I'm watching for.
This is unusual. I am not a man who watches without purpose. I am a man who identifies a question, gathers data, reaches a conclusion, and acts on it. That is the sequence. It has served me well in boardrooms and acquisitions and every significant decision I have made since I was twenty-two and took my father's mid-sized tech firm and started building it into something that would require its own legal department just to manage the contracts.
The sequence is not functioning correctly where my wife is concerned.
I sit in the Alderton Industries boardroom on a Tuesday morning and look at the quarterly projections on the screen and think about the ink stain on her wrist.
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