He packed his oils. “No.”
“You know what they call me?” she murmured, face mashed into the cradle.
He looked at her — really looked, past the armor, past the fortune, to the girl from Odessa who’d stolen her first pump jack at nineteen. “I’m the man who remembers what your body forgets to say.”
She reached for her phone on the side table. A new text glowed: “Rival bid on the Archer lease. 4 AM deadline.”
“Oil Baroness.”