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I rolled my eyes. “I figured. Name your price.”
“I’ll have to think about it and get back to you in bed tonight.”
“Is that all you think about?”
“You know it’s not, but you are a good chunk of my focus.”
“So, you have Ryleigh brain?”
“Yes, I do. It’s not a bad brain to have. Are we working out tonight?”
I rubbed my leg. “My hamstrings are killing me. Brad worked me hard yesterday,” I whined.
Oliver laughed. “You slacked off all these months and now it’s time to pay the piper.”
“I could just say forget the workout.”
“Nope. You promise to get back to your regular workouts. I’m afraid I corrupted you all these months.”
“If this is corruption, I love it.”
Oliver checked the Vacheron Constantin watch I had given him a few months ago when we were in Los Angeles.
“I have a security briefing in a few minutes.”
“Do you want me to stay?” I asked.
“It’s boring. What do you think of the plans I gave you?”
“I’m making notes a la Oliver.”
“I’d like to see them when you’re done.”
His desk phone rang, and he excused himself. I let myself out of his office and headed to mine. I was getting just like him, using a pencil to write notes on paper. I went to the office in the penthouse a few days ago to get a pen and found stacks and small slips of paper with handwritten notes. I wondered how he kept track of everything.
Oliver
“What are the ramifications of Jonah’s fuck up?” I asked, clenching my fists.
“The report is buried and hasn’t been entered in the computer system,” Vlad said.
I was sitting at my desk, speaking with my head of security on the phone. I needed to find out the information he had about my brother.
“And have you been tracking the movements of Antonio Caruso?”
“Yes. We have evidence he was the one that ransacked Miss Stewart’s apartment. We have no idea what he was looking for.”
“Did he do it himself?”
Vlad let out a clipped laugh. “You expect him to do his own dirty work? We found a couple of his mugs who like to talk. They did the work.”
“And of her father’s murder?” I asked.
“The cop is close.”
I ground my teeth. “If he finds out it’s Caruso, Ryleigh’s life is even more in danger than it already is. I need you to keep your movements discreet. If Caruso finds out we’re onto him, he’ll come after Ryleigh even if he has to expose himself.”
“And what of Jonah?”
