The Billionaire's Last Fling (Scandal, Inc Book 5) by Avery James

Author:Avery James [James, Avery]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-05-22T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

The first thing that Abby noticed upon walking into Amy Haven’s office on Monday morning was the hammer in her boss’s hand. Amy didn’t even turn around when Abby announced her arrival. She simply told Abby to shut the door. It was worth noting that Amy wasn’t holding the hammer in a particularly menacing fashion. She was holding it with her hand just below the head, tapping the handle against her thigh as she looked at a nail on an otherwise blank wall. Abby stood in silence as she waited for Amy to tell her what to do next. She didn’t dare sit. She didn’t dare move.

“What happened with the governor?” Amy said. Her words were sharp and she sounded tired and annoyed. As Abby tried to figure out what to say, Amy turned around and crossed her arms impatiently, giving her a look that said, start talking.

Abby wondered how much of the story she should tell. “I’m sorry. I crossed the line.”

Amy seemed to notice that Abby was only looking at the hammer. “I’m redecorating,” she said with a sigh.

“You had me worried for a minute,” Abby admitted. She let herself take a deep breath and exhale. “I kept looking at that hammer.”

“I was hanging a picture my daughter drew. It seemed crazy to have someone come in to do that for me,” she said. “What happened with the governor? I need to know the exact details.”

“He got stuck in an elevator,” Abby said. She’d decided to leave the trainees out of this. She never should have left them in a position to deal with Andrew Heck on their own, not after what had happened. “He was handcuffed to the handrail.”

“And you left him there?” Amy asked.

“My job is to make sure he doesn’t cause any trouble. Well, he didn’t cause any trouble,” she said. She couldn’t help but smile about it.

“Is that a joke?” Amy asked. She laughed in disbelief. “I’ve known you for six years now, Abby. I’ve given you latitude before, but you’ve never done anything like this. What if something had happened?”

“His mistress is the one who did it. We’re lucky she chose a service elevator and not a regular one.”

“Why would you do something like this? Your instructions were simple: keep his personal life out of the press. In what world does this align with that assignment?”

Abby looked Amy in the eye and mustered the courage to tell her the rest of the story. “He showed up at my place, let himself inside, and threatened me,” Abby said. She bit her lower lip while she waited for Amy’s response.

“He threatened you?” Amy asked. “In your home? He let himself in?”

“I thought he was someone else,” Abby said. “So I unlocked the door, and he let himself in.”

“What did he say to you?”

“Besides calling me a bitch?” Abby asked. “He made a thinly veiled threat to seriously injure me and in the process end his wife’s political career.” She wondered if she should mention the veiled threat against Maggie, too.

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