Chapter 3

The second week was different from the first.

She didn't notice it immediately. The first week had been straightforward — the car at seven, the apartment, him, back home by morning. Clean and transactional the way she had decided it was going to be.

But the second week Cade started doing things that were not in the contract.

Monday he sent food to her apartment. Good food, from a restaurant she had mentioned once in passing that she liked. No note. Just the delivery and his name on the order.

Tuesday he called in the afternoon — not to summon her, just to talk. She stood in her...