“I’ll marry someone. Fake marry, I mean. Within the next week,” he added, talking through the idea. “Someone with operational experience who’s willing to be bait to lure this guy out on our own timetable.” For a moment, he contemplated asking Sydney from his firm, but she had a teenage son, and he wouldn’t want to jeopardize the boy’s life, so no, Sydney was off-limits. “You can’t marry some random woman. No one will believe it.” Ella’s eyes thinned as her focus lowered to the ground, and heaven help him, he knew what this sassy and stubborn woman was about to say, and— “No, absolutely not,”
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