Read Walking The Edge: A Romantic Suspense/Espionage Thriller (Corpus Brides Trilogy Book 1) Online
Authors: Zee Monodee
He stood and walked out of the room. With him gone, Kali let out a breath. She sagged against the cushions and closed her eyes.
She had to close the operation.
Getting up, she stepped out of the sitting room and took the stairs to their living quarters located on the third floor. Once inside the south-facing suite, she went to the floor-to-ceiling windows, to stare out of the glass at the view of Central London. In the distance, she could make out the green treetops forming an oval on the inside of Grosvenor Square.
As her eyes lost their focus in the immensity of the view of London’s rooftops, she breathed out...and let Rayne come up.
She darted a look at the immense, gilt-framed bed—a replica of Marie Antoinette’s at Versailles.
That’s where she should be tonight, working her wiles on Nikolai, reeling him in further.
But she couldn’t. Not today. Not when the only thing on her mind amounted to Ash, the man she had always loved.
Tomorrow is another day
, she told herself, but tonight would be hers—Rayne’s.