rning box on her phone screen, a

try again, only to get the exact same error message. Her corporate-linked

y one person in New York petty and powerful enough to freeze her

stand losing control over anyt

FK Terminal 4. Is

arbara looked up to see the massive glass facade

than

bed her black suitcase from the trunk before heading throug

erhead, she walked straight up to the Emirates

the desk greeted her

a'am. How may I

t on the next available fli

have your name and

ara B

ite smile froze. She tapped a few more keys, her expre

restriction lock on your travel profile. We are

ds on the marble counte

on lock? My travel reco

er passengers were listening, the a

d an emergency hold on your corporate-linked ID twenty minutes ago, c

ing at her temples. To trap her in New York, Keagan wa

only worked there as an assistant. I don't ha

agent said apologetically. "Unless you have an unlinked diplomatic or foreign passport to bo

nked pa

passport case stamped with the Burke family crest. That private passport

d open the smooth leather

side was comp

empty case as the memo

slipped her actual Dubai passport out of its leather case and locked it inside the hidden co

e from her drawer without realizing the booklet itself w

n and her private passport missing, she

epped away from the counter and walked ove

, unblocked Keagan's num

le ring, and Keagan's deep, smu

last night. Couldn't even hold out

r voice low and lethal. "Lift the restr

gan let out a low, condesce

in her face, and now you're trying to run away at the airport? Did you

ed my formal res

ce. "Until you come back to my office and hand over every si

crets just to trap me in New York!" Barbar

ed coldly. "Otherwise, stop throwing this pathetic tantrum, get yourse

ic

nt dead in

taut with fury. Keagan actually believed that locking her t

to retrieve her private Dubai passport from the hidden compartment of her desk

suitcase handle and strode back out to the taxi st