Seraphina’s eyes widened to the point of aching, the thick lenses of her glasses magnifying the sheer, unadulterated panic reflecting in her pupils. Her heart, which had been hammering with the lethal instinct of a cornered assassin a second ago, now pivoted into the frantic rhythm of a completely bewildered, out-of-the-loop corporate employee. She looked at Kael’s severe, impossibly chiseled face, then glanced past his massive shoulder at the stone-faced bodyguards and the entirely amused ...