CHAPTER 61

RONNELL POV

It was late, well past midnight. Sleep, however, was a distant dream. I stood outside Blair’s door, the thin panel separating our rooms. Had she noticed the peculiar arrangement? I'd listened intently more than once, hoping to catch a sound, a whisper of her presence.

silence, was all I could hear.

I rested my head against the door.

I had screwed up today and hadn't even realised it while I had been doing it. When I sank into work mode, personal relationships didn't really exist at that time. Zelda riding with me to do the second security building inspection had been natural. We'd been doing it that way for several years now. A habit.

But that was no excuse.

Raphael and Lucas were harmless, but they were also A-grade assholes who talked shit about their own wives and had no sense of humor. I knew that the hour's drive with them had been epically painful.

She deserved an apology from me but before telling myself the hundreds of reasons I shouldn't, I raised my hand and