High Stakes by Robin Thomas

Author:Robin Thomas
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-01-31T13:00:00+00:00

10:55pm: He’s up to something, I know it. I punched the pillow and closed my eyes.

Saturday

8:35am: Damn. I was meeting Pete at the office at 9:00 and I had slept in. So it looked like a takeaway coffee for breakfast as usual.

9:10am: The building felt strange on the weekend, empty, creepy. Security was there, of course. People sometimes went in on the weekend to catch up, Shelley especially, and they were used to us checking in on the odd Saturday.

9:16am Pete was there already, of course. And surprisingly, so was Mike Carmichael.

‘What are you doing here, Carmichael?’

His red head bobbed over the top of his computer. ‘Working, like you. Got a few things to catch up on. But I won’t be here long. I won’t spoil your date with Pete.’

‘Shut up before I tip this coffee on you.’

‘I wouldn’t waste a perfectly good coffee on him,’ Pete strolled over towards us. ‘Not when I’ve got a couple of Danishes to go with it.’ He dangled a paper bag from a local bakery in front of me.

I took a deep breath and suddenly felt hungry.

‘Don’t suppose you would have a third one there?’ Mike asked hopefully.

‘Love your optimism, Carmichael.’ Pete laughed. ‘Come on Kate, we may as well use the conference room where we can spread out stuff.’

‘You better actually do some work in there. I’ll be checking up on you two.’ He called as we walked away.

‘Get a life, Carmichael,’ Pete said as he opened the door to the conference room.

He’d already set up with his laptop and the paperwork he’d accumulated. I slung my laptop case across from him and set down my coffee.

He passed me a Danish and sat down, spreading his long, jean-clad legs out in front of him. He looked at me. ‘You know, I had a good time last night. Your family is nice, welcoming.’

I sat down and took a bite of pastry. ‘That’s because they don’t know you.’

‘Yet.’

I raised my eyebrows. ‘This project is only going to take the weekend. After that one of us is going to be the other one’s boss. Have you forgotten that?’

‘I’ll be a very nice boss.’

I threw the empty bag at him, ‘Dream on. And one thing more’

‘What?’

‘Have you forgotten that I don’t like you?’

‘Well, I’ve made progress. Yesterday you hated my guts.’

‘Whatever, Forest. Let’s just get on with it.’

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