She had yielded, doing whatever he said, but in the end, she realized he had been toying with her all along.
So now, if she continued to stay, she wouldn't have to put on a false front, begging and fawning over him. She could do whatever she pleased. The worst-case scenario was simply that she still wouldn't get what she wanted to know.
Phoebe Faulkner returned to her room early. What she didn't know was that in Jace Lennox's room, the light stayed on all night.
Right at midnight, Jace Lennox's phone chimed with text alerts, a rapid-fire series of beeps like a machine gun. Jace, however, didn't even look at it. His gaze remained fixed on the computer screen.
On the computer screen was the daily schedule for Norport's most famous hotel.
The text alerts continued for several minutes before finally stopping.
After the text alerts stopped, his phone began to ring.
Jace Lennox found it annoying, but after glancing at the caller ID, he answered the phone anyway.
