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I listened to the commotion outside my door. I knew my sister. Whoever was outside my door, it wasn’t her.
Without a knock, the door flew open and Kristina Graham stood there, her face red and puffy, her chest heaving. She looked like she’d run from the lobby all the way up the stairwell to the ninth floor.
I quirked an eyebrow. “Bad day?”
She blew a long piece of auburn hair out of her face. “That man you live with is a prick that needs to be neutered.” Slamming the door, she flounced into the chair and dropped her purse.
“Well, you wouldn’t be the first person to tell me that. What happened?”
Scrunching up her face, she lowered her voice and mimicked him. “Drop everything and get to the hospital, Kristina. I pay your salary, Kristina. Tell them you’re Chloe Michaels, Kristina. Do as I say or find yourself on your ass, Kristina.” She leaned forward and stared at me. “In one damn sentence, do you think he could’ve said please, or for the love of god told me to abort mission before putting the entire hospital on lockdown?”
I grimaced. There was no telling what the nurses had put her through. “Was it bad?”
“Bad?” She lifted her eyebrows. “Well, after that pat down, I don’t think I’ll be needing my gyno visit this year.”
Stifling a grin, I glanced down at my blankets. “He’s just a little overprotective right now.”
“Yeah, well, with all the creepy-ass shit going down, maybe that’s not such a bad thing.”
“What do you mean? What creepy-ass shit?” I could tell she didn’t want to tell me something. That only reinforced my resolve to hear it.
“It’s nothing.”
“Kristina…”
“Somebody hacked into our system at the office and canceled Julian and Zane’s flight from Seattle to LA, that’s all.”
“That’s all?”
She sighed. “And right before that, someone named Frank called the Stone Acer show from Hollywood Hills. It really freaked him out. He said something about ‘Dalton has some balls.’”
My throat constricted. “Did you say Dalton?”
“Yeah, didn’t he tell you?”
I didn’t answer her. I couldn’t. My blood was boiling. The whole time, I’d been led to believe his flight got canceled due to mechanical failure…not sabotage.
He never said anything about a caller from Hollywood Hills.
He lied again. And just like that, we were back to square one.
