Part 4 - Green District
- sjgoldsmith
- Dec 6, 2025
- 3 min read
For the first time whilst on the job, Alexander froze.
It wasn’t that there was someone in William Darcy’s office when there wasn’t supposed to be. He could and had dealt with that situation before. It wasn’t that she was wearing blue in a room of green.
No, it was her face that arrested him. The way her eyes glinted in the dimly lit room, the freckles that speckled her nose, the dimple in her cheek as she smiled. It was her face that had stopped him, and the fact that it was pressed against the wall safe whilst she turned the dial.
‘Don’t mind me,’ he said once he’d recovered himself. He strolled into the room and headed for the painting that she’d removed from the wall to reveal the safe.
She watched him as he approached, her hand reaching for the knife sticking out of her boot.
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