GABE (Silicon Valley Billionaires Book 2) by Leigh James

Author:Leigh James [James, Leigh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jack's House Publishing LLC
Published: 2017-05-08T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Lauren

Bethany met me at the house that morning. There were dark circles blooming like bruises beneath her eyes. “You look how I feel,” I told her.

Bethany gave me a tired smile. “You look worse than I feel.”

“I’m not surprised.”

“Have you heard anything?”

“Nothing after Li Na texted me and basically told me that she’d kill Hannah if I messed up again.”

“I’m so sorry.” Bethany squeezed my shoulder.

I nodded. “Let’s get to work so I don’t go crazy thinking about it.”

“I didn’t get as far as I wanted last night, so we really need to buckle down. Can we set up in Gabe’s office?”

“Of course.” I motioned for her to follow me down the hall. “He wants us to stay here for security purposes, anyway. It’s fine for today, but I need to get to Paragon later this week and hold an employee meeting.”

“Does everyone know what’s happening?”

“Everyone knows I’m working on some sort of deal with Li Na. And the board knows what the details are, of course.” I grimaced, remembering what Gabe had told me. “Which reminds me—someone on the board leaked the news to our international distributors, trying to throw the sale. With everything else going on, I forgot to mention it.”

“Someone on the board?” Bethany looked shocked. “Who?”

“I don’t know yet.”

“What’re you going to do?”

“Gabe offered to handle the issue, to get to the bottom of it. With everything else going on, I accepted.”

Bethany set her laptop down and started pulling documents from her bag. “Wow. This is big for you. You don’t delegate easily—I should know.”

I nodded. “It actually feels good. Instead of feeling weakened or threatened, I feel…stronger. Because I know he has my back.”

Bethany grinned. “I never thought I’d see the day.”

“Stop.” Blushing, I opened my own laptop and clicked on one of Paragon’s financial statements, which I needed to review. “Back to business—about the staff. I haven’t made a company-wide announcement yet, but Gabe’s offered all my employees positions with Dynamica.”

Bethany’s eyes sparkled. “He’s good, huh? He’s even starting to grow on me.”

“He’s very good. But please don’t start up about the prenup again,” I said. “We aren’t there yet.”

“You will be. And when you are, I’ll be ready with my laptop.”

I groaned and set my attention to the numbers in front of me. Whatever else was going on, I could always count on Bethany to be a pain in my ass.

I was grateful for the piles of work—it took my mind off yesterday. I hadn’t slept, worrying what might’ve happened to Hannah. The guard who’d been watching her had been rough, and she’d clearly aggravated him. I didn’t want to think about what he could’ve done to her when they got back to wherever they were going…

I checked my watch. The house had been quiet all morning. “I’m going to go check in with Gabe, okay?”

He wasn’t in the kitchen. I found a note from him on the counter:

Babe.

Meeting with your board and catching up at work. Levi and Ash are doing surveillance.

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