Chapter 137 Simon

• It’s intoxicating, being near Kiara again. Kira Kerr, according to my shamefaced investigator, but she’s right. Kiara suits her much better. She peers around us with wide, brown eyes, absorbing every inch of the hotel as Nicholas and I give our joint tour, and I can barely focus past the thud, thud, thud of my heart as we talk.
• Over the last month, I’ve learned the meaning of the word ‘humility’. I’ve reached out to my greatest rival and made amends; I’ve faced the unflattering image Kiara showed me in the mirror. Nicholas Kerr is not the only person benefiting from my new leaf. And though I’ll keep working to change her mind for years, decades, my whole goddamn life if necessary, part of me hopes…
• Kiara glances at me through her lashes as we all study an old-fashioned elevator with a metal cage door. There’s no power to use it, but it’s striking.