CHAPTER 59
The Ultimatum (2)
Nova
After our brief spat at the office, I waited behind to talk to Asher but he never came back to the office.
Eventually, I grew bored and walked out of the building, heading straight home.
I tried to bury my head in work but my thoughts kept going back to Asher and what the mysterious meeting was all about.
I must have nodded off because the sound of the door opening bolted me up from sleep.
Blinking rapidly to clear the drowsiness that overcame me, I sat upright to see Asher walking into the living room.
He was a sight for sore eyes.
His suit was rumpled and squashed like he'd been stuffed into a very tight corner, his posture badly affected and his hair sticking up at every end.
Most of all, it was the look on his face that got me.
In the short
