The Money Man by Herkness Nancy

Author:Herkness, Nancy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-13T16:00:00+00:00

When Alice walked past him, her signature scent of violets drifted past Derek’s nostrils, making him inhale. Alice’s innocence about how the corporate world worked, her occasional delicious blush, and her wide-eyed enjoyment of traveling on a private jet for the first time evoked the delicate, woodsy flower. Her sharp intelligence and the steely determination that had led her to KRG’s Small Business Initiative shredded all images of flower petals. Not to mention that her passion in bed veered more toward the deepest red roses.

The contradictions made her fascinating. Those, and the curve of her lips that kept tempting him to bend down and taste. Now every time she shifted in her chair, it jerked his attention away from the numbers swimming across his computer screen. He wanted to scoop her up and carry her back to the sofa so he could slowly strip off her sexy business clothes, yank the clips out of her prim, tantalizing bun, and spread her out naked on the leather to feast upon. His cock twitched into life again.

Irritated at his inability to keep his mind on his work, he hit the call button, asking Kai to bring him some more coffee. Alice asked for tea, her soft voice stroking over his skin like the brush of satin. Jesus, everything about her aroused him this morning.

He drew on every ounce of self-discipline he possessed to focus on the Argon reports, immersing himself in the shifting patterns of the numbers he loved so much. Just like Alice did. And there she was, waltzing through his thoughts again.

An urgent email from Leland pinged into his laptop, thanks to the plane’s high-tech wireless network. As Derek read it, he muttered a curse under his breath.

I found the issue. It’s definitely not a bug. It’s an encrypted subroutine tied to the credit card transaction system. I’ll need some time to crack the encryption but in the meantime, tread carefully.

Derek stared at Leland’s last admonition. He hoped like hell that this was just white-collar crime—the kind that didn’t involve violence—but even then, Alice’s professional reputation was vulnerable. This meeting with Barsky and his boss, Ted Murval, had damn well better shift their attention to KRG and away from her. The script he’d developed with Alice deliberately made her seem like a minor player, a mere incidental to KRG’s powerful plans. Alice had joked about being insulted by that, but she’d gone along with it, acknowledging that it was the sensible strategy.

He didn’t want Barsky to have any suspicion that she’d found the problem on her own and gotten KRG involved through the SBI portal. That would put her in even more danger of reprisals.

He closed the email, deciding not to share it with Alice until after the meeting. She was already tense about their subterfuge. He could see that she wasn’t accustomed to lying, at least in a business setting. He wouldn’t add more pressure.

Then he forced himself to dive back into the Argon project, although with a low thrum in his gut that twisted together desire and uneasiness.

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