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done for this little boy.” One of the Trinity Masters was the Director of the FDA. Harrison suspected he could get her I dotted quicker than she realized or perhaps they could even offer her another better solution. Several of the Trinity Masters had been making huge strides in cancer research and treatment. There was a drug currently being tested at the FDA that had the potential to eradicate several types of cancers. Harrison would place a call and see where they stood in the trials.
    Alexis smiled gratefully. “Thanks. So what deep thoughts did I interrupt?”
    “Pardon me?”
    “When I came in, you were looking out the window. You’re never idle. What’s wrong?”
    It was on the tip of Harrison’s tongue to say nothing. That was the smarter answer, but he couldn’t keep pushing this problem away. It was time to get the ball rolling, to set things in motion. “I’m getting married.”
    Alexis blinked once, twice. He watched her work overtime to school her features before she managed to say, “Oh. I see. Congratulations.”
    He crossed his arms. “That’s it?”
    She narrowed her eyes. “What else do you want me to say?”
    “Don’t you want to know who I’m marrying?”
    Harrison had to hand it to her. Alexis didn’t look away, didn’t seek to leave. This conversation was clearly tough for both of them, but she didn’t balk. “Not particularly.”
    Her sullen tone pleased him, but he was careful not to let his expression show that. For too many years, the two of them had skirted around their feelings, rejected what they both knew was there.
    He knew why they did it. She did too.
    But Harrison couldn’t go to the altar to pledge his life to someone else without trying one more time.
    No. That wasn’t true. Even if she rejected him, he wouldn’t step foot in that ceremony room.
    “You remember I’ll be taking two partners.”
    She winced, but he forged on.
    “It’s what’s expected of members of the Trinity Masters.”
    Alexis scowled. “You haven’t said those words to me in ten years. I thought that secret had to stay in the vault.”
    Alexis was truly unique, special. In addition to her talents as a doctor, her quick wit and her endless capacity for compassion, she was one of only a handful of people over the past two hundred years who hadn’t accepted an invitation to join the Trinity Masters.
    Due to the secret nature of the society, many legal forms were signed that ensured the Trinity Masters’ privacy in the event someone didn’t want to join. To reveal the organization would bring certain downfall to the person, discredit them, ruin them. However, because potential members were vetted closely before being invited to join, it was unusual for someone to turn them down.
    Alexis had.
    Harrison left his spot at the desk and took a seat in the chair next to her. “I know we haven’t discussed this in a very long time, but I wanted to explain a few things to you more clearly. Things I never had the chance to expound upon before.”
    She turned to face him, crossing her legs as she did so. The movement drew Harrison’s gaze lower. She wore stockings beneath her skirt. He could see the faint impression left from the snaps in the material. Though Alexis eschewed relationships, dating and—for the most part—sex, her innate sensuality still shone through…in her wardrobe and the shiny lipstick she wore. The two of them never discussed their sexual affairs. He suspected Alexis had taken a few men to her bed over the years, but those encounters must have been brief without a hint of commitment or emotion attached.
    “Go ahead,” she prompted.
    “I’m a legacy. Did I ever tell you that before?”
    She shook her head.
    “It means I am one of a long line of Trinity Masters. My father and grandfather and several greats before were all members. My parents were part of a trinity.”
    She tilted her head curiously. “I’ve met your mom and dad. It was just them.”
    “No. It wasn’t. You