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“Oh…”
“You thought he was coming after you because of what happened at the café?” Lincoln questioned gently.
“Well… yes. I couldn’t understand why else he wanted to kill me so badly.”
I stepped forward and took her hands in mine, bringing them to my lips. “Because he knows we love you, Mylee. He’s trying to destroy something close to us.”
Lincoln and Kai nodded in agreement.
“That social media blitz that upset you so much showed the world that we didn’t give a rat’s ass who knew about you. Richard had to have picked up on that and used it to his advantage.”
“You l-love me?” she whispered, awe coloring her face.
“Of course,” I laughed. “Can’t you tell?”
Tears misted Mylee’s brilliant, dark eyes, and she shook her head. “No,” she breathed shakily. “I haven’t had very much of it in my life.”
“Well, you have it now,” Kai promised, reaching for her other hand. “In spades.”
Lincoln kissed her cheek, and we embraced, relishing the feeling of her body relaxing against us.
“We will take care of that asshole,” I promised her. “Now that we know who he is for sure. It’s like I’ve always promised you, Mylee, you’re safe with us.”
“But you need to stay with us if you want us to keep you safe,” Kai added hopefully. “Will you please come home now?”
Mylee straightened herself and looked at our faces, nodding, a smile forming on her lips. “Yes,” she agreed. “But Charlie is not going to be pleased when I tell him he’s going to need to move me again.”
“Don’t worry. We’ll give him a bonus,” I intoned with a chortle.
CHAPTER28
Kai
“If you can’t beat them, join them,” Mylee said over our video call when I staunchly opposed the idea. “Everyone else is doing it, and frankly, it looks like we’ve got something to hide if we don’t.”
“Have you run this by Paxton?” I asked worriedly, staring at her proposal nervously. “I don’t think he’s going to like it.”
“I’ve asked Lincoln and Paxton. They both think it’s time we’re launched into this century with a proper social media campaign—as long as you and I head it.”
I was shocked to hear that Paxton, with all his uppity family ties, was willing to go public with our unconventional arrangement.
“It’s not about airing our personal life to the world, Kai,” Mylee explained gently. “It’s about embracing what we have and showing everyone that we’re not afraid of growing with the new wave of American families out there. Our entire company paradigm is about suiting the changing lifestyles of Americans. We lead by example at Silverpiece.”
“Aren’t you worried about alienating some of our customer base?” I asked nervously.
“You want to know my favorite Aesop fable, Kai?” she asked sweetly, and I saw her big smile through the phone. “It’s the one about the boy, his father, and the donkey. Go look it up for me.”
I found myself doing just that after we got off the phone as I wrestled with our new social media campaign, still unsure if it was the best business move.
She was right, of course. We didn’t pander to any particular base, but Silverpiece had always maintained a more neutral approach to our business. Coming clean with our lifestyle was bound to sit uneasily with some of our investors as well.
I found the tale on Google with very little effort, and I read it aloud to myself. The story was simple enough, but the moral was that if you try to please everyone, you will please no one.
Mylee’s point was taken.
It was the nature of business, after all. We wouldn’t be able to appease all the masses, but ours was a progressive company, and so far, Mylee had shown great aptitude for knowing what was good for the conglomerate.
“Did you need something, Mr. Evans?”
