(Author's POV)
The call came the following morning.
Aurora was at her desk in the lab, reviewing data printouts, when her phone buzzed with Gavin's number.
"Good news," he said. "Rathbone family returned the funds. All five hundred million. Transferred this morning."
She sat back in her chair. "Already?"
"They moved fast. Turns out nobody wants to be on the wrong side of a Sterling filing." She could hear the smile in his voice. "Don't thank me too effusively. I get a percentage when we win. My motives are entirely mercenary."
She laughed, and some of the tension she'd been carrying since her coffee shop meeting with Stefan loosened a little. "Still. Thank you."
"Now that we've dispensed with gratitude," Gavin said, "completely unrelated topic. A friend gave me two tickets to the Ha
