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and things went to shit while she was gone. It had taken her
almost all the time she’d been back to put things back together.
She had a backlog of meetings and paperwork to wade
through. Everyone wanted a piece of her time. No wonder she
never took sick days. Not once. Not ever. The few times she
couldn’t come into the office, she’d worked from home,
soldiering through the worst of it.
She’d been on the phone all morning and her head was
starting to pound. She snatched the bottle of water off the edge
of her desk and drank deeply, hoping hydration would help.
She knew it wouldn’t. The real headache was five foot four,
petite, with blue eyes, beauty that was almost pixielike, and an
aura of mystery and pain.
The real headache was her wife.
Coralyn Anderson.
Despite her harsh words at the house, which she’d regretted
even as she said them because there was cold and then there
was icy cold and unforgiveable, Giana had kept tabs on her.
She’d hired a guy, and the fact that she’d had to research
carefully to find one was perhaps a treatment to the way she
did business.
People weren’t wrong when they called her ruthless, but at
least she was honest. She had reports sent via email and phone
calls every morning and afternoon. She’d left Coralyn alone
for almost two weeks, but she hadn’t left her truly alone.
Something she didn’t recognize in herself refused to stop. It
was the same kind of dogged determination she usually
applied to business. She’d never let it extend to a living,
breathing entity before.
It wasn’t care. It was obligation.
