Sugarbaby by Crystal Green

Author:Crystal Green
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2015-05-03T16:00:00+00:00

12

“Son of a bitch,” I whispered as I read what Diana had shown me on the iPad. I didn’t even chastise myself for the cuss, either.

“Harry Diamont,” Diana said as she kicked her blue boots up on the corner of the kitchen table, “really has it coming to him.”

Carley wadded up a napkin and threw it at Diana’s feet. With a roll of her eyes, Diana rested them on the chair next to her. But I didn’t care about the furniture because I was busy looking at a picture of Noah’s enemy. He was older—the article said he was forty-four—but he had a ginger beard and square glasses that gave the appearance of even more years. He was spiffy, though, wearing a plaid bow tie that was almost twee, but he had a fatherly smile. The caption beneath read:

Harry Diamont takes over.

Reading more, I discovered that The Reeves Group wasn’t the first company he’d infiltrated. He’d made his way up the corporate ladder in other businesses, always leaving for a better opportunity, even after he’d met his contemporary, Nathaniel Reeves.

Noah’s dad.

“Harry Diamont,” I said. “A worm in a bow tie.”

Diana finished sipping her coffee. “Try a search about Diamont and the Reeves family. There was an article that talked about how he became a right-hand man for Nathaniel Reeves back in the day. Then he was offered a bigger position from another company, and there were no hard feelings. Business was business between these fellows until Diamont decided to become involved with The Reeves Group again, bringing his bigger and better ideas with him. That’s where it gets good . . . and stranger than shit.”

I was already on the new search, and the screen blipped with links. I pressed the top one as Carley leaned in so she could see, too.

Diana continued. “Diamont supposedly returned to Nathaniel Reeves about ten years ago when the company he was working for went belly-up, after they ignored all the advice he was giving them. He bought a lot of stocks in The Reeves Group, and Nathaniel welcomed his business acumen with open arms. It sounds like Diamont spent years proving his new faithfulness to his friend, but I’m betting he was only planting the seeds of this big plan he obviously had. Have you gotten to any of that in those articles yet?”

“Not yet.” I was stuck on a page with photos of Noah’s brothers and uncles. Noah was even in some of them, but although the men were all blond, tall, and gorgeous, my billionaire stood out. And it wasn’t because of his masculine beauty and arrogant, poised stance in his fine business suit.

I saw the same anger that I’d noticed before, but it was intensified: There was a darkness in him while he faced the camera, as if there was a fatalistic edge to the way he was staring down the lens.

I’d met this Noah, even though I’d seen him less and less recently.

I pulled my focus away from the tablet and met Diana’s gaze.

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