CHAPTER 73

"My office."

"Stay there. Don't talk to anyone. Don't sign anything. I'm coming."

"It's not necessary that..." she began, pride flickering faintly.

"I'm coming," he repeated, an order that went unchallenged, and the line went dead.

Twenty minutes later, he was walking toward his office, ignoring a flustered Claire. She didn't seem to have slept either. He closed the door softly behind him, his eyes immediately finding the letter on his desk.

He didn't go with her. He went to the lett