My Boss Doesn't Know I Own Him
"The third signatory is someone in this building. Someone who has known about me since before either of you had a reason to. Someone who has been paying me, matching a dead man's payments to a ghost, for four months, and whose name, Miss Vance, is not Preston Blackwood."
Nora's hand found mine in the dark. I let it.
"Why tell us any of this?" I asked. "You're for sale. Sell."
"Because four months ago I took the counter-offer to find out who was making it," he said simply, "and three days ago I watched Preston Blackwood lean over a cleaner and threaten her with a midnight deadline, and I decided I am finished being anyone's leash." He nudged the paper on the step with his shoe. "The final pag