Chapter 258

‘Penny for your thoughts.’ I turned from the floor-to-ceiling window. ‘Nothing. Just thinking about work.’ Lea didn’t buy it. ‘Work doesn’t make you look like that.’ ‘Not my work. Mira’s.’ I glanced at the phone clenched in my hand. Mira had just texted to say she was extending her stay in Paris. She didn’t say how long. Just that work was piling up, they were short-staffed, and she needed to pull her weight. As if to prove the point, when I called, she barely got two sentences out before cutting the call. Still, I couldn’t shake the feeling there was something she wasn’t saying. It wasn’t what she said—it was how. Something in her tone. A kind of evasiveness. ‘Ah, yes, the famous jewellery designer.’ Lea tilted her chin towards the safe in the corner of the office. ‘May I?’ I keyed in the code and unlocked it. She removed the top box, opened a velvet case, and lifted out a necklace. ‘What’s this one called again?’ ‘Veyra.’ ‘Pretty name. Eliza Black wore it, didn’t she? I remember the