Lahat ng Kabanata ng Aegis Group Dangerous Ladies: Kabanata 91 - Kabanata 100

Orion held his breath.Ivy turned to face him. Her expression was solemn, with no attempt at a smile. "Yes."He swallowed."Why don't we sit?" Piers suggested.Orion moved on auto-pilot to the arm chair on the other side of the room.How bad was it? What had happened?"First, can you tell us exactly what happened here?" Lumen asked. "We are still piecing together the puzzle."He nodded. "Ah, okay. About seven weeks ago now, Milan Esposito swapped two imperial eggs. The why of it doesn't matter. What does is that she got caught on camera. The person with that surveillance video waited until Milan and Jennifer were at a house party to send someone to confront them. The guy, Bain Collias, approached Jennifer instead of Milan. Jennifer blew him off, they came home and Bain came by the next day. Again, he confronted Jennifer, only this time he showed her video and sent it to her. We got the story from Milan and after realizing the imperial egg couldn't be returned, we collecti

"Lumen?" Jennifer didn't believe her eyes. Not one bit.Lumen's smirk was real.Jennifer covered her mouth with one hand and held onto Lumen's elbow with the other. "Oh my... Oh my God."A brisk knock at the door surprised her. It opened and another, taller woman darted in.Jennifer gaped at the newcomer.The hair was different, and the eyes weren't the right color, but..."Ivy?"The brunette beauty grinned and wrapped her arms around Jennifer. "I should have known I couldn't fool you. We dyed it last night. What do you think?""Oh my..." Jennifer clutched Ivy tight. "What are you doing here? Why? How?""Well." Ivy glanced from Jennifer to Lumen. "You kind of had us all worried about you. Then we checked in on Orion and he was about to lose his damn mind. So, here we are."Jennifer opened and closed her mouth, unsure where to start or what to say.She was so damn grateful to see them, but they couldn't be here. She couldn't allow them to get sucked into her shit.

Sunday. London, UK.ORION LISTENED TO THE hurried clicks of a woman's heels on the stairs. The steps were even sure. No hesitation or slipping.Was it Jennifer?He didn't know when she'd leave the party. According to the plan, he was supposed to stay out of sight in the van. But he couldn't do that. After learning where she'd been and what she'd done, he needed to see her. Desperately.He wanted to grab her, hug her, shake her, yell at her. What was she thinking, taking on a risk like this by herself? And that didn't begin to include whatever the hell it was she was doing here. What the fuck?The steps came closer.The woman was almost on him.He grabbed the railing and took a step, then stopped, pausing as if he were in the act of climbing the stairs.The footsteps were around the corner.A bit of shadow stretched across the landing.A hand darted out, grabbing the railing, and then the rest of her body swung into view.She took a step and stopped, staring dow

Sunday. Fine Art Gallery. London, UK.JENNIFER PRESSED HER HAND to the bodice of her dress and glanced over her shoulder at the driver of the car who'd picked her up. He was busy securing the garage which gave her this last, precious moment alone.Ivy and Lumen had somehow fit the thumb drive adaptor, a cord, and the thumb drive into her already uncomfortable bra.She didn't think Uwe would require a strip search, but Bain might. Luckily for her so far, Uwe didn't appear to be inclined to let anyone else order her around. And why would he? One evening could potentially yield one-point-five million if these coins were sold at the current projected value. As long as she was valuable to Uwe, she hoped she'd still be under his direct protection.Though, if this plan worked, she might not be here very long.Her heart ached.She couldn't get her hopes up, though after seeing Orion that was damn hard. She wanted to be able to spend time with him. The idea of a week together, ev

Monday. Safe House. London, UK.ORION PACED THE LIVING room of the flat. The others were still asleep. He'd promised to wake them if there were any changes, if anything at all happened.The horizon was a pale gray color.Jennifer should have texted, called, something.He knew they shouldn't have sent her back. He just knew it.Something was wrong.At first, everything had seemed fine. Not long after she'd gone into the gallery building, Zain had reached out to say he'd gotten access to a machine on Uwe's network and would have more later. Orion and the others had settled in to wait.Jennifer hadn't contacted them.The hours had passed.Zain provided regular updates while there was still radio silence from Jennifer.Feet shuffled on the wood, getting closer.Orion didn't glance away from the windows."Good grief, what time is it?" Lumen's voice was still heavy with sleep. She wasn't much of a morning person. "Have you been awake all night?""She hasn't reach