Chapter 25 Chapter Twenty Five

• CRYSTAL
• When I first receive the meeting invitation from Montgomery Conglomerate, every instinct I have screams trap. My fingers hover over the email for a full minute, reading and rereading the formal language that claims his assistant will be representing their interests in our quarterly partnership review.
• My business sense tells me this is Kai. It has to be. The timing is too convenient, too calculated. But there's this treacherous part of my heart that whispers 'what if it isn't?' What if this really is just business, and I'm letting paranoia cloud my judgment?