Chapter 65: The Art Exhibition

The crisp invitation lay across Nathan's desk, its elegant script seeming to mock with every glance. "The Hartley Gallery proudly presents 'Metamorphosis': A Solo Exhibition by Olivia Greene." Circling the date in red, it stood out like a sore thumb—one of the decisions lying ahead. Nathan picked up the invitation for what had to be the hundredth time, tracing his fingers over the embossed letters. Not that he'd been invited personally, of course. The invitation had come through his company's arts patronage program. But it might as well have been addressed to him alone—a siren call he couldn't ignore. "You shouldn't go," he muttered to himself, flicking the invitation back onto the top of the desk. "It's a bad idea. You'll only torture yourself." But the words barely left his lips before Nathan knew he was in a losing battle. The possibility of seeing Olivia's latest work, and maybe her in person, was just too hard to overcome. It had been weeks since his first cloaked stakeout arou