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wasn’t going to give him the satisfaction. Pressing all the numbers, she
got off at the next floor down, went to the staircase, and went up and not
down. When she was on the roof, she looked around at all the buildings
surrounding his and saw that if she got a good enough run at it, she could leap
to the next building and leave from there.
    It was stupid move, she knew that. With
as much pain as she was in and how much her head hurt right now, she should
just simply go down and let someone take her home. But not now, not after the
way he’d treated her. The man was going down, and she was going to laugh her
ass off when he fell. If, and that was looking like a big if, she didn’t fall
first.
    Tossing her purse to the other building,
she took off her heels and tossed them over as well. When she felt she could do
it, she went to the other side of the building and breathed deeply several times
before she took off running. When the building was there for her to jump to,
she had second thoughts, and that was all it took for her to stumble slightly.
She caught her leg on the last step and nearly fell to her death when she
touched the other side with her hands.
    It took her three tries to heave her body
up onto the other roof. And when she did, she lay there for several minutes
just trying to slow her pounding heart. When she sat up, she reached for her
first shoe and decided that she was entirely too unsteady for walking on them,
and limped her way to the other one and her purse. When she was at street level
she hailed a cab, glad now that she’d parked on the next street over. She lay
in the back, resting when the cab started moving.
    She wasn’t going back there. He was too
demanding for them to ever get along, and he lived in another decade…even if it
was just as her working for him as an employee. She’d never make it as his mate,
and she certainly didn’t want to.
    By the time she drove home, she was
hurting so badly that she was sure she’d never be able to get out of the car,
much less up to her room. She saw the two cars in the drive but didn’t care to socialize
just then, and went around to the back of the house and in the kitchen.
    Her grandmother was pouring tea when she
opened the door. Before she could say anything her grandmother put her finger
to her lips and shook her head. Then in a loud voice she called to the other
room.
    “I just checked my phone, Mr. Henson,
and I’ve no messages from her as yet. You say she left your office and you
didn’t see her leave? How strange.” Grandmother pointed to the back stairs, then
picked up the tray and headed out. “Do you think she’s still in the building
then?”
    “No. I don’t know what happened to her,
but she’s not in the building. I had security go over every inch of it.”
Sapphire moved to the back stairs and slowly made her way up. She wished she could
have stayed and listened to whatever else Blair had to say about his search for
her, but the door had closed and she wasn’t in the mood to listen at doorways. She
met Diamond coming down the stairs, and she helped her the rest of the way up
to her room.
    “Blair is downstairs.” Sapphire nodded
at her sister. “I figured you knew. I think Grandmother is having fun at his
expense. I let her know that you’d called me so she would know what do to. How
did you know he’d come here?”
    Sapphire had called Diamond when she’d
gotten to her car to ask her to tell grandmother she was running late. She also
told them to expect Blair, and he’d be spitting mad.
    “Because he doesn’t like to lose.” She
took off her blouse and left her bra and panties on. She was hurting too much
to take them off, and after Diamond made sure she wasn’t going to die by
morning from her old and recent wounds, she closed her eyes. She’d have to
avoid him for the next few days if she wanted to be able to heal after all
this.
    “Sapphire, what would it hurt to have
him as your mate? I mean, wouldn’t he