LOGINHe stopped pacing and gripped the back of a chair. “I had everything tied up in that investment, Stein, everything. And now it's just… gone. The damned thing evaporated in less than an hour. Do you know how suspicious that is? How impossible?” He looked at me, and for a moment, there was something almost like hope in his eyes. Like he wanted me to explain it away, to tell him it would be okay.I said nothing. I wasn't here to give him hope. I was here to take everything away from him until he was left with nothing.“Right.” The hope died. “Of course you don't care. Why would you? The merger's halfway done, and your company is safe. Even if ours go down the drain, you guys won't follow us.”“Kai—”“Don't.” He held up a hand. “Just… don't. I don't need your pity. I don't need you to stand there looking at me like I'm some pathetic—” He broke off and pressed the heels of his palms to his eyes. “I don't know what to do. I don't know how to fix this. The leaks, the stocks, Aries… it all ha
STEINI stared at my phone, waiting for it to ring. The news must have gotten to him now. Since I was the first person he called when he saw that camera in his office, I didn't doubt I would be the one he would call for his new problem. Well, the joke was on me. He didn't call, and when I tried calling, he didn't take my calls. With the camera uninstalled, I could only rely on the tracker and the calls he made.Most of them were to his dad, who didn't take his calls. He also spoke with his lawyers and a tracker. It was amusing how he sought help from others when all it would have taken was a phone call from me to get everything back on track. Not that I'm going to help him do that.I was, after all, the one who started this. It wouldn't be entertaining if I solved everything for him without getting what I wanted.When he didn't call until evening, I drove to his office. He was still there, since the tracker hadn't moved an inch since this afternoon. However, when I went to his office,
KAI“Am I wrong?”“Kai, that's not it. He's no one important. You don't need to waste your time on people that don't matter,” he said, obviously trying to get me to drop the matter. “So, why did you call?”I raised a brow. Why the hell wasn't he responding to my question? Wouldn't it be easier for us if he just told me the name of the person who called? Could it be the man he was dancing with at that party? Even though he confessed that he only got close to him to spite me, it could just be a lie. “Who's he?”He let out an exasperated sigh. “My brother.”My eyebrows almost shot up to my hairline. “Your brother?”“Yeah, Jonas's son.”I had heard about the son he had with his mistress, but I hadn't seen him. Jonas said he was schooling abroad, so there's no way….“You know, you could have at least used a believable lie.”“Wait.”I disconnected and tossed my phone on my desk. “Fuck him!” I tugged hard on my hair and pushed the chair back as I got up. I didn't even know why I was feelin
STEIN“Are these all?” I asked Frank as I went through the documents he placed on my desk.He took a step back and nodded. “Yes, sir. I got every legal document I could get my hands on.” He pointed to the first one on the stack. “That's information on all the stocks he bought from Aries.”“Aries?” I rubbed my jaw. “How much did he invest?”“A billion, sir.”“A billion?”Seems he invested the money I gave him. “How's it?” “It's moving rapidly, sir. In a month, he'll get four times the amount he invested in. And if he still invests that, it'll keep multiplying.”We can't have that. “Buy the company.” He blinked. “Sir… Sir?” “Are you deaf?”He gulped and shook his head. “No… No, sir!”“Good.” I picked up another file and read through it. “This, too. Buy all the companies he has shares in and close them all.”He froze. “But….”I narrowed my eyes. “I will do it, sir!” “Good.” I opened my top drawer and got out a brown envelope. I tossed it on my desk, and he reached for it. “Expose t
KAIIt has been three freaking days since I found that camera in my office. 72 hours of dead ends, false trails, and the growing, gnawing certainty that whoever planted those cameras was better than I.I sat in my office after work hours, waiting for Stein, who had promised an hour ago that he would be with me before I blinked my eyes. I had been blinking my eyes for an hour now, and he hadn't shown up as he promised. Had it not been for the gravity of the situation, I wouldn't have waited for him as he had asked. I would have gone home straight. But I couldn't, not when I was desperate to find the culprit and make sure they didn't try this again. I'd interviewed Edward twice. Poor bastard, he kept apologising for not having answers. The janitor had been reassigned to the east wing. His access card was deactivated, though I suspected Stein had been right about him. He didn't look like someone who would do something like this. I reached for my coffee, found it cold, and drank it an
The music shifted to something slower and more intimate, so I pulled the stranger close to me. He was an excellent dancer; otherwise, it would have been a damn awkward dance.“I'm Kohl,” he said, introducing himself with a smile. “Stein,” I responded, while watching Kai, who was still looking at us with an indifferent look on his face. I couldn't even tell whether he was angry or not. His expression was just flat. “I know. I've heard so much about you. It's such a pity I came too late, but…” He bit his lower lip when I looked at him with a frown. “You don't mind getting to know me well, do you? You might be married but —”“No.”He frowned. “What?”I held him close. “I'm not a cheat. I only love one man, and that's my husband.”I glanced towards the man in question. Kai's face was blank. He locked his gaze with mine for a few seconds before he turned and walked away. He walked straight for the side entrance, the one that led to the exit. My feet stopped moving.“Something wrong?” Koh
KAI“This is all, sir,” Edward said as he placed the files I asked for on my desk. “I also spoke with Mr Elliot Marshall, and he agreed to the meeting tonight. I booked a table for two at your favourite restaurant.”“Good.”I picked the first file from the pile. “And the Schmidt? Did you investigat
This time I didn't stop at the head. I let my mouth slide down his shaft, inch by inch, feeling him stretch my lips. His fingers tightened in my hair when I took him halfway, then further. The head nudged the back of my throat and I breathed through my nose and kept going.“Fuck,” he gasped. “Stein
The colour drained from his face. “You're joking.”“Am I?” I tilted my head, making certain to keep the harmless smile on my face. “You think you're special because Kai bought you home, don't you?” I leaned forward. Ray frowned as his eyes darted to the door, almost as if he were expecting Kai to
STEINI didn't know my cute bird was such a gold digger. I'd never seen his eyes sparkle so much when I told him about my assets. If only he knew just how much I actually have, he would likely grovel at my feet and offer himself to me.I didn't want that. I want him to actually come to me because h







