The Big Billionaire by Lexi Aurora

Author:Lexi Aurora [Aurora, Lexi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aurora Passion Publishing
Published: 2017-09-17T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Three - Jared

“Come on, people, please! If you guys really want to have a meeting, we’ve got to have some order!”

Jared looked out over the crowd of people sitting in folding chairs in front of the podium he’d been put behind. When he’d agreed to attend this town meeting, an agreement that had been tentative at best, he hadn’t realized that the plan was for him to lead the damned meeting. If he’d known that, he would never have agreed to come, which was probably why Alex hadn’t told him the plan in the first place. Now here he was, standing up in front of a crowd of people who were all afraid, mostly angry, and all looking to him for some kind of guidance. That was the last thing he wanted. He wanted nothing to do with a position of leadership for these men, women, and children. Maddie and Moira had looked to him as the leader of the family, and look where that had gotten them. Dead, that’s where. And yet here he was, all of these faces looking up at him as if he had some answers.

“Come on, guys!” he shouted again, rapidly losing patience for the chattering, which was doing nothing but keeping any decisions from getting made. “If we can’t stop talking for long enough to get things done, we might as well just forget this whole thing.”

He looked around the room and saw that this comment, at least, had been taken seriously. The room shut up quickly, which was good. It was true that he was operating blind, but his audience didn’t know that.

“Good,” he said gruffly, clearing his throat and gazing around the room. “That’s good. Now I’m not going to pretend that I understand what this meeting is about. As far as I know, everything’s been going as well as we could hope for in a situation like the one we’ve got now. The best thing I know to do is open the floor. Maybe one of you can give me a better idea of what’s going on here. It’s no secret that I haven’t been much a part of the goings-on of the town since it happened.” A woman in the front raised her hand, and Jared acknowledged her gratefully. If he could keep these people talking, they might just be able to get through the meeting quickly so that he could go back home where he belonged.

“I’m Cindy,” the woman said loudly—a woman Jared vaguely remembered from managing one of the town’s banks. “And I’m sorry you weren’t brought more up to speed. What we’re doing here tonight is trying to establish a solution for the shifter problem.”

“What solution?” a man from somewhere in the back shouted angrily. “We just take ’em out! We’ve got plenty of guns, right? We take ’em out, that’s what I say!”

“No,” Cindy said quickly, with a voice of finality, “that’s not what we’re going to do.”

“All right,” Jared said slowly, trying very hard to keep his own feelings on the monsters to himself.

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