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“I want to know what he’s up to. I spoke to a friend at Futile; he isn’t touching any of their programmers.”
“I didn’t think he would because he has a deal with them. Eltech is ripe for the picking. We have skill and talent.”
“Tell Olivia to go. I want her to find out all she can.”
Two days later, Lucian and I sat in my office, waiting for Olivia to come back from her interview at Blair Industries, New York. She was nervous that she would be found out, but we assured her that Declan Blair would be more interested in stealing her away rather than checking her credentials. He was out for revenge, and I didn’t exactly know why.
Olivia walked into Eltech shortly before noon. She had been at Blair for over two hours and looked flushed when she came in the door.
“Are you alright?” Lucian said worriedly.
“Fine. It’s warm out, and I was offered so many perks and benefits that if I wasn’t married to you, I might have to consider this job. The offices are unbelievable, and I would be getting my own large corner one with an assistant. It’s obvious that Declan has money to spare.”
“Who interviewed you?”
“The man himself.”
“He’s back from his honeymoon? Paige said they were taking a two-month honeymoon. It’s only been three weeks.”
“Declan was there with his assistant Miss Sinclair.”
“Did you say, Sinclair? Pretty brunette?”
“Yeah, that’s her. She cackled when she laughed. They were a bit too cozy for me. It seemed like they were more like lovers than coworkers.”
I frowned and knitted my eyebrows together. Was Declan having his lover work in his New York office? In the same city his new bride was? What fucking balls this guy had.
“Zane?”
“I know her. I met her with him in Atlanta. They were too friendly to me. He took me aside and told me not to mention it to Lana. She thought he was in Miami at the time. Did he give any indication of what he’s doing stealing all my programmers?”
“He’s building a gaming division that will rival yours, even take both you and Futile down.”
“But, I also do educational.”
“He told me eventually he will work on that, but right now, games are where the bread and butter are. Declan said I could either be on the boat when the tide comes in or in the surf floundering. He wants to take you down.”
“Did he say why?”
“He said it’s just business, but I have a feeling it was personal.”
“He knows. He has to, but how? He was away when I slept with Lana.”
“What the fuck are we going to do? We have one hundred and forty-two people, a lot with families that can’t afford to lose their jobs. This asshole is going to try to dismantle Eltech for sport.”
“We can’t offer our employees even close to what he’s offering. At the rate he’s going, we won’t have a programming department except for Olivia.”
“Lucian, I know that. I’m going to call Jordan. Maybe he can help.”
“What can he do?”
“He’s worked with us before. Maybe he can talk to Declan.”
“That arrogant fuck isn’t going to back down even if someone close to his financial equal tells him to back off.”
“I’m doing it anyway.”
Lucian and Olivia leave, and I feel weak. I’m going to lose my company if something isn’t done. The next thing will be that Declan undercuts my business and takes away my customers on the educational side. If that happens, I’m done. All I built, all I worked for, will be gone because of a vendetta. At least that’s what I think.
