Egan_A Cryptocurrency Billionaire Romance by Sara Forbes

Author:Sara Forbes [Forbes, Sara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-12T16:00:00+00:00

16

EGAN

I ROLL OFF MY COUCH at 7 a.m. sore as ever. I groan. Tonight, I'm just going to sleep on the floor. Jess talked of air mattresses and full sets of bed-linen yesterday and I brushed her off. If I schlepp in a load of stuff in here, it's like admitting that this situation is going to take longer than I thought. And I don't want to do that. It's already been two whole weeks.

Jess left last night soon after Natasha fell asleep. I let her go. If she'd left Natasha's floor to come down here to the second floor, I'd never have had the self-control to just let her leave. And I think Jess knew that, too.

I just have to wait until tomorrow.

In the middle of my routine Thursday linkup with the guys where we discuss market strategies, Paul of all people pipes up with an off-topic item. "Egan, we're concerned. I was doing a scan of the CCTV imagery from the building. Well, a car was outside the office pretty late yesterday."

"Yeah, it's my cleaner, Jess."

"How has she not seen Natasha?"

"Wait. Why are we talking about this?" I ask. "Can we stick to topic, please?"

They're all glaring at me in silence, waiting for the answers. My throat is dry. I'm just glad this is a video link up and not happening in person. "She's not a spy."

"What does she know?" Paul demands.

A silence stretches out. Whatever about the rest of them, I can't deny Paul the truth, my right-hand man since forever. He's scarified so much for me, living in that tundra in Iceland these past years babysitting those power-hungry servers, tracking every move on the exchanges, never letting his eyes off the ball. His social life is even emptier than mine.

"She knows," I say, directing my gaze at his image alone. His is the only reaction I truly care about. "Jess knows about Natasha, yes."

He shakes his head. There's a chorus of "What?" form the others.

"Please, gentlemen," I say above the cacophony of voices. "I had to. I don't expect you to understand the circumstances, but just believe that I had no choice. This is totally on me."

"Who is she?" Liam demands.

"Just a cleaner. Paul can vouch."

"So, okay, your cleaner knows," Jack says, trying to sound reasonable. "What now? Do you tell her about the group? Will she be ordained one of us?"

"No. She only knows about Natasha, not the rest. Obviously. There was just no way I could keep it secret anymore and I needed her to help keep the building habitable for Natasha. Without her, Natasha would be in a much worse way than she is."

Another round of head-shakes and murmurs follows, but it's less intense than before. They're softening. They don't want to lose me as leader. Except of course, Sean whose scowl is deeper than ever.

I manage to usher them back onto the topic at hand and close up the meeting without further comment.

After I shut down the video link, I stare at the blank screen.

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