Escapade: Her Billionaire - London (Her Billionare) by Lisa Marie Rice

Author:Lisa Marie Rice [Rice, Lisa Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lisa Marie Rice
Published: 2018-12-20T00:00:00+00:00

Bennett handed her the thorniest of thorny problems his company was dealing with. He’d hired fifteen new operatives — ten men, five women — for this single operation. All of them were assigned to round-the-clock surveillance. Another twenty were on SIGINT — signals intelligence. Which was a fancy way of saying they manned surveillance stations 24/7 monitoring cellphones, computers, landlines, security video footage.

The two of them were sitting at the big desk that had been cleared and was now their workstation. It was so weird. This was day two of their collaboration and already Bennett felt comfortable. Elle sat with her hands in her lap, laptop open, fully turned to him, ready to hear what she called ‘the parameters’ of the problem.

The parameters of the problem were that it was shitty.

“This is a private company so there are no national security implications. I am going to consider you a temporary subcontractor of my company so there are no issues with giving you full access to intel.”

She cocked her head. “A temporary subcontractor? How much will you pay me for my services?”

He smiled. “Name your price.” His company’s contract was huge. They could afford more or less whatever she wanted.

“Tickets to Les Mis.”

“What?”

“You heard me. They are almost impossible to find, particularly in London. So I want two tickets to my favorite musical when this is over and I want you to accompany me.”

Oh man. He’d never seen Les Mis. Fuck yeah. “Done. And dinner first.”

“Okay.” She lifted her hands and placed them over her keyboard. His hands went to his own laptop next to hers and he transferred a big file. A really big file. While it was loading, he gave her an oral brief. “It’s a big tech company. Sydotek.”

She whistled. “That is big.”

Bennett nodded. “They are working on something that has huge implications, could revolutionize computing and could potentially be worth billions.”

Elle nodded, intelligent face sober. “Probably something to do with the next step toward quantum computers.”

Bingo.

He stared. “How did you — never mind.” All he had to do was look at that bright face and those intelligent eyes to figure out how she’d figured it out. This was her domain. He felt hope stirring. Maybe she really would be able to help them.

She sighed. “If that’s it, you didn’t overstate it. It would be revolutionary and worth billions. Someone is stealing the research.”

This time he didn’t stare, but he did smile. “Four hundred years ago you would have been burned at the stake.”

She didn’t smile back.

He glanced at her monitor. His file had already loaded which meant her computer was amazingly powerful. He knew for a fact that the file took even the most powerful commercially-available computers at least a quarter of an hour to load. Hers just sipped it right up like a fine wine.

“Ok. What you have in that file is an immense amount of data, including footage. I don’t know how you can get through it in less than a week but I’m giving it to you anyway.

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