Chapter 24

It was one of those days on which, as usual, I thought everything was going just hunky-dory. I was sitting at the office, at my desk, reading over some reports, when my assistant, the specter, knocked on the door.

"Sir, there is a gentleman at the door who says he wants to see you. He says his name is Liam Greenwood," the assistant said.

Liam Greenwood? Just the mention of his name made my spine shiver. He is Zara's ex boyfriend, who helped her escape during my welcome party.

"Send him in. Okay?" I said, my voice in check, my words keeping my tightening chest calm.

A minute later, the door swung wide, and Liam walked in, a few years younger, straddling like a man with that saucy, cocky swagger as though he had nothing to lose. His eyes wandered all over the room before finally resting on me with a smirk that put me instantly on guard.

"Kai," he said, like we were old chums. "Thanks for fitting me in on such short notice."

"I forget that you and I are on first-name terms," I returned