Romance · fiction
A Future Without Deadbolts
The deadbolt clicked at 12:17 in the morning. Harper Hayes stared at the heavy walnut door, then slowly turned toward Vincent Romano. Outside the forty-second-floor windows, rain hammered downtown Chicago so hard that the skyline had dissolved into streaks of silver, black, and gold. Thunder rolled over Lake Michigan. Inside Vincent’s private...
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