Burning Ultimatum (Trevor's Harem #4) by Aubrey Parker

Author:Aubrey Parker [Parker, Aubrey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B01BJDOF6Q
Goodreads: 28954471
Publisher: EROS
Published: 2016-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Daniel

Welty looks me right in the eye. Right in the fucking eye. If we were dogs, I’d see it as the implied threat it is. And then because I’m the alpha no matter what the board tries to pretend — no matter the Trevor-related smokescreens they blow at the press or with the outside world — I’d leap through the video screen and rip out his throat.

Especially since he’s threatening my mate.

“This has gone on long enough,” Welty says.

“Maybe you should elaborate.”

“Don’t be stupid. I’m talking about Miller.”

“And?”

“Halo didn’t select her, Daniel. Just because Caspian decided to have his goons cart Kylie off doesn’t mean that Miller is better suited to … ”

“Bridget. Her name is Bridget.” I know I’m exposing too much, but this is the endgame. Soon, none of this bullshit will matter. And besides, fuck them. Fuck them all for what they’re trying to do.

“Regardless,” Alexa says, “what he’s saying is true. Halo didn’t select Kylie to leave, or Kat. That’s two of the top four positions, summarily dismissed.”

“So you feel the dismissals shouldn’t have occurred,” I say. “And maybe you’d like to fly to Ukraine and ask the nice men who took Kylie away if they’d mind returning her. Though honestly, I doubt she’ll be much good to us anymore.”

“Don’t be a wiseass,” Welty says.

I cross my arms. “I came to you with the information about Kat, and you handed me your decision. I seem to remember you agreeing she needed to go.”

“The difference is that you wanted her to leave for her own good, rather than because her orientation would affect her later performance.”

“She’s just as gone,” I retort. “I don’t see why you care.”

“It’s just more evidence that you’re compromised. More evidence that this should have been in Halo’s hands all along!”

Welty standing up for Halo? I must really be getting to him. I can’t resist a smirk. If only he knew the loophole in Halo’s armor that I’ve been exploiting for weeks.

“Look,” says Victor. “What’s done is done. Halo selected Bridget and Jessica the same as it selected Kylie and Kat. Whether you feel Daniel is compromised or not is of no consequence, as much as I’d like to feel it somehow is.” He glares at me the way Welty recently did, the two-way screen technology allowing us to meet pupil to pupil. “Truth is, none of us are going to challenge Caspian.”

And she was after me and Trevor, not just the championship, I think but don’t say. And if you’d let her infect the company that far, it wouldn’t have been long before she came for the board, too.

The fat man, whose name I still can’t recall, shakes his jowly head. “Kylie was the one. We need someone with a strategic mind.”

“You’re guessing,” Alexa says, dismissive.

“Maybe I should pray,” the fat man snaps back.

“It’s moot,” Welty says, playing arbiter. “None of us knows what we’re looking for. It’s like searching through a dump for a single item, not finding it, and

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