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“No, I just kno to take time to smell the roses”

“That’s a bad habit you’ll have to give up one of these days”

“Spoken like a man who can’t see the trees for the forest”

“That’s supposed to go the other way around”

“Not in your case”

So what if he was a big-picturepicture wasn’t just the best view, it was the only view that mattered “Hudson, you’re a pain in my ass”

“Right back at you Good luck tonight”

An itchy dread about so he alht on his monitor and his calendar popped up Below the notes about the Singapore deal he was in negotiation about was a notation that the Harbor City General Gala was at eight They were na the hospital’s new heart center after his dad The cardiologists and surgeons had done everything they could to help save Michael Carlyle, but they hadn’t been able to They were a physicians and nurses, and they deserved the state-of-the-art equipment and space

“Dahtness that squeezed his chest whenever he thought about his dad “I’d blocked it out of my mind”

“Don’t worry about bringing a date,” Hudson teased “I’m sure Mom will have two or three all lined up for you there”

With that final dig, his brother hung up and the sound of the dial tone filled Sawyer’s office, bouncing off the unadorned lass surfaces He hit the end call button and took another look out at the city at his feet before crossing over to the door to do what needed to be done—tell everyone to go home because there was no job

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Clover Lee was in the wrong place She had to be

The office at the top of Carlyle Toas filled with the kind of huge guys in dark suits who either protected you frouy’s azes had slid toward her as soon as she’d stepped off the elevator, completed a quick up and down threat assess identical blank looks slide into place

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