Seconds passed. Then a full minute. Then five. But the reply never came.
Instead, Darius continued typing on his laptop, expression as unreadable as ever. Whatever he thought of her message, he didn’t show it. He didn’t even glance in her direction.
It was as though the email hadn’t existed at all.
But Cassandra knew better. Something had changed. She could feel it.
He had read her words, of that, she was certain. And he had chosen silence. She knew he would be a hard man to crack but now she wondered how hard she would need to push to even get a reaction from him.
A knock shattered the tense quiet that had settled over the office like a layer of frost.
Cassandra’s eyes flicked to the door as it creaked open, revealing a single man dressed in sleek black. The bodyguard. She remembere
