Chapter 9 The Business Deal

Sabastian POV: A deadline conditioned nothing of importing into my office, where I could call it home. The humid air there weighed heavy under a tensed breath that never flattened out, like that set of neatly stacked financial documents that quietly stood sentinel, witnesses to the unground battle enacted between us over an expensive business deal whose immediate future was a merger with a very powerful competitor taking our minds into that particular present but always shifting my eyes to Scarlett's.