A Promised Fate by Cat Mann

Author:Cat Mann
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: young adult, book series, the beautiful fate series

Chapter 16

NDA

“Confidential Information and Materials between Ava Zae Baio Alexander and Ari Cal Alexander aka The Disclosing Party and Lirik F. Nino aka The Receiving Party.” Reading the document aloud, Lirik’s eyes tightened and her light, dust-like freckles wrinkled. “For the purpose of preventing the unauthorized disclosure of confidential information as defined below,” she thumbed through the small stack of papers.

“This is a non-disclosure agreement between my wife and me and you. This agreement is a requisite of finalizing your hiring process. You will find that as my assistant, you will end up spending a fair amount of time dealing with my family, Ava especially. You will have a window into our private life, including access to family matters, legal matters, personal relationships and messages from doctors, publicists, legal representatives and so forth. As long as you are my assistant, you will have this access to our personal lives -- our address, our personal numbers, our childcare information, and, in a very limited way, our finances. Hell, Fauna knew everything. My wife and I try very hard to remain private and this agreement will ensure that you do not hinder us. Really, this agreement protects all of us.”

I removed the cap of my fountain pen, exposing the pointed, inky tip, and set it down on the document in front of Lirik.

“I need you to put your signature here and, in doing so, you will forfeit any ability to release information of any kind about my wife or my child or myself to anyone without my consent. I can call someone from legal up here to explain the parameters of the agreement further if necessary. If you choose not to sign the NDA, I will be left with no choice but to find someone else to fill the position of my assistant. This agreement is a must. I insist upon … it but more importantly, Ava insists.”

“I understand what a Non-Disclosure is, Ari. Legal won’t be necessary.” She crossed one long leg over the other, picked my pen up and looped her signature across the paper in a curly, cursive scrawl on the final page of the document.

“Do you have any questions for me?”

“Do you think these kinds of things actually work?”

“Excuse me?”

“Do you really think a simple signature on the bottom of this page will protect you from anything?”

No. The answer to her question was no. A non-disclosure is nothing more than a scare tactic. Lirik’s signature wouldn’t protect Ava or Max. She could still take our information, trot off and tell the world whatever she wanted about us, take whatever she wanted from us, she could access accounts, review personal records and try to use them against us. We could retaliate but for what? Retaliation would only drag our own names through the court system in a pathetic pursuit to get money that Lirik likely didn’t even have and we didn’t even need.

“This document just outlines our trust in one another on paper. It is not meant to insult you.

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