Familiar.
Practiced.
Five minutes later, Alejandro walked into the condo and tossed his suit jacket onto the sofa. “What a night. Sergio had us locked in a conference room until twenty minutes ago going over the final promotion details.”
Mariana stared at him.
Sergio had spent the previous three hours at the hospital with his son.
“And what did Sergio decide?” she asked quietly.
“Nothing official yet,” Alejandro lied smoothly.
The following afternoon, Mariana went directly to Chloe’s downtown office building.
She didn’t make a scene.
She simply requested a
