Chapter 23
NORA
"I like understanding what my husband's business actually does," I said. "Is that so unusual?"
"Refreshing, is what it is," he said, and something in his eyes warmed further, exactly the reaction Adrian needed me to build.
I steered us slowly, carefully, toward the old company history, framing it as simple curiosity, a young wife interested in the deeper history of the business world her husband moved through. Harry talked easily about the old days, the companies that used to compete for the same contracts Whitmore's now dominated, and somewhere in the middle of an offhand story about a supplier who'd gone under years ago, he mentioned a name I recognized instantly. Rayne.
"Terrible thing, that fire," he said, shaking his head, some old memory passing behind his eyes.
