Two Days Later
Aria stared at the cream-colored envelope on her desk, her name written in perfect calligraphy across the front.
She'd received it this morning via messenger....hand-delivered to the Blackwood Enterprises reception desk with instructions that it be given directly to Miss Aria Chen.
The return address made her stomach tighten: Victoria Ashford.
"You've been staring at that for ten minutes," Damien's voice came from her office doorway. "Are you going to open it or should I have it thrown away?"
Aria looked up to find him leaning against the doorframe, arms crossed, his expression a mixture of amusement and concern. He'd been in meetings all morning but had apparently found time to check on her between conference calls.
"It's from Victoria," she said unnecessarily.
"I gathered that from the fact that you're looking at it like it might explode." He crossed to her desk, picked up the envelope, and examined it. "Want me to open it?"
