CHAPTER 60
Riven Pushes Harder
The lunch on Thursday was different from the lunch two weeks ago and they both knew it even if only one of them was prepared to acknowledge why.
Riven had suggested it in the lobby on Wednesday afternoon with the easy casualness he deployed with such consistent skill that she had almost missed the specific quality of preparation underneath it. She had said yes because she was hungry and because Zara had told her to stop making herself invisible and because saying no to Riven Varek had never required more than the word itself and she was not afraid of using it if it became necessary.
They went to a different place this time, a small French bistro three streets from the building that was warm and candlelit even in the middle of the day and that she noted wa
