LOGINI meant (104 & 105 earlier) Chapter 106 Wyatt’s POV “Not yet, Zoe, give me one more minute before I press it,” I said, with my finger resting on the trackpad and the cursor held above the word send. She sat beside me on her sofa with the laptop open between us. The message was already written, four lines long, addressed to Mr. Delacroix, the chair of the audit committee, from an account that Zoe had created that afternoon in a name that belonged to nobody. A single image was attached. It was the frame from the lift, my father’s mouth against a woman’s throat, and her face hidden in his shoulder with her hair falling across it. It was a quarter past ten on Saturday night, and the only sound in the flat was the refrigerator humming in the kitchen. My father had not answered the demand, and he had not paid it, and Zoe had said that afternoon that the only way to make a man like him believe a threat was to show him that it had already begun. I looked at the picture and found tha
Chapter 95 Mateo’s POV “You will trace the sender of this message, Scarlett, and you will do it without telling anyone in this building, including the head of security,” I said, turning my phone face up on the desk in front of her. She did not reach for it. She stood with her hands folded and leaned over the screen, and I watched her eyes stop on the photograph and stay there for several seconds before they moved on to the text beneath it. It had arrived at ten to seven that morning, while I was dressing. The image was grey and clear and taken from high in the corner of a lift car, and it showed me against a mirrored wall with my mouth at the throat of a woman whose face was turned into my shoulder, with her hair falling across it. My face could be seen plainly. Hers could not be seen at all. Beneath the picture were two lines of plain text. Two million into the account below by midnight on Monday, or your wife sees this, and the board sees it after her. “It was taken from
Chapter 94 Zoe’s POV “You tried to delete a flagged record from your own terminal, Wyatt, twelve minutes after Scarlett left your office, and that is why you will stop making decisions without me,” I said, locking my front door behind him on Monday evening. He dropped his bag on the floor and sat on the arm of the sofa with both hands pushed into his hair. “I panicked.” “You left your own terminal in the audit trail.” “Then she will go to my father.” “She will go to the board, which is worse, and she will do it within two weeks, because she is not a woman who leaves a column unbalanced.” I put a glass of water in his hand and sat beside him. “So we cannot wait for the right moment, Wyatt, because when she finishes, your father will be the one who decides what happens to you.” “What do you want me to do?” “I want him to be the one who is explaining himself.” He looked up at me. “Think about what his position rests on,” I said. “The board gives him everything be
Chapter 103Scarlett’s POV“Close the door, Daniel, and tell me again who asked for the access logs, because I would like to hear the name from you and not from the system,” I said, without looking up from the two screens in front of me.He closed it softly and stood with his hands clasped.“Nobody asked for them, Miss Scarlett, I requested them through the information technology office as part of the routine quarterly audit, exactly as you instructed.”“And who saw the request?”“Only the technician, and he does not know what the audit is for.”“Good.”It was Monday morning, a quarter past nine, and I had been at my desk since half past six.On Friday evening I had counted twenty three payments across three vendors, Harlow Creative Partners and two others whose names I had not yet been able to trace to a real address.Together they came to just over four hundred and twelve thousand, and none of them exceeded the limit at which my office would have been asked to sign.Over the weekend
Chapter 102 Zoe’s POV “Wyatt, it is barely seven in the morning, so tell me what has happened, because you look as though you have not slept at all,” I said, holding my front door open with one hand and my dressing gown closed with the other. He walked past me without answering. He stopped in the middle of my living room with his jacket crooked on his shoulders and his keys still in his fist, and I closed the door and watched him stand there looking at the curtains as though he had forgotten what he came for. “Sit down.” “I cannot.” “Then tell me standing.” He turned around, and his eyes were red at the rims and very bright, and he spoke in a low, even voice that frightened me more than shouting would have. “It is my father.” “What is?” “The man she has been sleeping with, Zoe, it is Mateo.” I did not say anything. I stood with my hand still on the back of the sofa and let the words arrive, and they arrived slowly, one at a time, each one heavier than the last, and I fel
Chapter 101 Wyatt’s POV “Answer me, Layla, because I heard him say it through the door, and I sat on that window seat for four hours waiting for you to come out,” I said, and my voice shook on the last word, though I had meant it to stay flat. She did not move. Her shoes lay on the carpet between us where she had dropped them, and her hand had gone to the front of her nightgown and closed on the cloth. “Wyatt, please lower your voice.” “Why, so that the cook will not hear what you have been doing in my mother’s house?” “Please.” “How long?” She drew a breath and let it out slowly. “I will not answer that in a corridor.” “Then I will tell you what I think.” I stepped closer, and she backed against the wall. “I think that you knew exactly who he was from the first day, and that you chose him because I was the one person he could hurt. You came into this house with your chin raised and your new dress, and you looked at my father and saw the one way to make me pay fo
Chapter 1Layla’s POV“You know what, Layla? I’m fucking ashamed of you now. Look at yourself. Those chubby cheeks, that face staring back at me every single day. It disgusts me. I’m done pretending this still works.”The words hit me before I could even brace myself. Wyatt stood there in the middl
Chapter 7Layla’s POV“What!!!!!”“Mom… I got the job! After so many months!” I squealed, shoving the phone screen right in front of her face.My hands were shaking so badly I almost dropped it. The email glowed on the display, bold letters screaming the exact news I’d been praying for.Congratula
Chapter 6 Layla’s POV Next morning “Hmm..” I moaned as the morning sun hit my face, smacking my lips sleepily. I opened my eyes slowly, then closed them again. But something about my surroundings felt completely unfamiliar, and my eyes snapped wide open. “What the fuck!” I muttered, qui
Chapter 5Layla’s POVBefore I could even process his words his mouth dove in.This wasn’t a gentle lick at all, he buried his face in my cunt like he wanted to drown in it. His tongue dragged up my slit in one long, nasty stripe, then latched onto my clit and sucked hard, his lips smacking loud







