What Comes Next
AMARA'S POV
Six weeks after the acquisition closes, life has a shape to it.
Not the frantic shape of ninety days and a deadline. Something slower. More deliberate. The shape of two people who have stopped performing for each other and started simply being in the same space.
She is a senior associate now. Her own small team, a corner office at Hartley and Walsh that is not Damien's building, which matters to her more than she expected. She wanted her own ladder. He understood immediately, without being told.
That is one of the things she has filed in the permanent catalog.
He understands things without being told.
Monday she comes home at seven-thirty with a deposition transcript and the specific expression that means she found three things wrong with it before she re
