Departure
Monday arrived sooner than Catherine expected. The alarm went off before sunrise, though she had already been awake for several minutes. Traveling had never made her nervous. If anything, she enjoyed the quiet hours before a trip began. The city outside still belonged to delivery trucks, early commu...
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Chapters
1. The interview
2. Welcome to the jungle
3. The shark and the cub
4. Snakes in suites
5. Brooklyn nights
6. Later hours, long stares
7. Lines and challenges
8. The business congress
9. The weekend that changed everything
10. Back to the cold
11. Vince’s warning
12. First strike
13. Prove yourself again
14. Pressure builds
15. Fire and ice
16. Storm in the office
17. The Aftermath
18. Julia strikes
19. Broken pieces
20. Vince investigates
21. Target on her back
22. Burn notice
23. Sheffield
24. The Door Opens
25. Letters and Lemon Cake
26. Back to the City
27. The Proposal
28. Loose Ends
29. The Dinner Invitation
30. What We Keep
31. Revenir
32. The Interference
33. The Soft Return
34. What Comes After
35. The Final Move
36. Echoes of Before
37. Operation Disruption
38. Fault Lines
39. Trust or Treason
40. Between Light and Shadow
41. The Breaking Point
42. Eye of the Storm
43. The Countermove
44. After the Fire
45. The Final Move
46. Epilogue part 1
47. After London
48. Back to normal
49. The competitor
50. Flowers
51. Coincidence
52. Lines
53. Interest
54. An invitation
55. Boundaries
56. Departure
57. Milan
58. Dinner
59. Expectations
60. Old rivals
61. Headlines
62. A favor
63. Home
64. Distance
65. The photograph
66. New York summit
67. Shadows of the past
68. A late-night call
69. Crossing lines
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