Grasping The Future by Michael Anderle

Author:Michael Anderle [Anderle, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781649714992
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2021-02-08T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

“Hey.” Amber came up to squeeze Jacob’s shoulder.

“Hey to you too.” He turned with a smile. “I’m finishing up with emails. Maybe thirty minutes left?”

“It works out perfectly. I’ll go home, take a quick shower, and meet you for dinner?” She gave him a thumbs-up.

He returned it with a smile and she headed out. They tried not to make a big deal of their relationship at the office, but the truth was that Amber wasn’t much of a one for PDA anyway.

That was fine with Jacob. After years of devoting every spare minute to his company, he no longer had any idea what to do with his spare time. He and Amber had made a point to have a weekly date night, but it was a struggle to talk about anything except work.

They only kept doing it because Nick was relentlessly on their case.

Jacob sighed and stretched. The lab was almost empty by now. The outgoing shift of workers had completed their handoff to the incoming team, who were settling with cups of coffee and data entry. A constant stream of data came out of the pods, almost more than they could deal with.

When he heard the click-clack of heels, he looked up. Who he expected, he wasn’t sure—but it certainly wasn’t Anna Price.

The head of Diatek, Price had gotten into her field after she and her husband were forced to take their daughter off life support. She had vowed to find a new technology that would resuscitate comatose patients, something she knew would require significant amounts of money to get off the ground.

Now, she worked with the Department of Defense, making the money that kept companies like PIVOT going.

If he were honest, he had always been uncomfortable around her. She exuded the very east-coast, expensively-suited vibe that he, as a young entrepreneur, associated with people who had too many lawyers and would take you for everything you were worth.

He probably wasn’t far off from how Price would behave if he got on her bad side, which made it doubly difficult to remember that she was in this business for good reason.

And he always felt obscurely guilty that he was saving patients under her nose—that she was watching, over and over again, the recovery her daughter had never had.

Tonight, he assumed, she was there to talk to him about Ben. He tapped a stack of printouts. “Ben worked through a few of the job postings before he went back in, but not all of them. We kept him busy with tests, I’m afraid.”

“That’s no trouble.” As always, she managed to put the correct inflection in her voice and somehow also convey no emotion at all. “Mr. Ainsworth is a talented chemist with a great deal of work ethic. I believe he would have found a job with or without my intervention. I am simply offering my help.”

“I’m…sure he appreciates it.” Jacob had begun to get the sense that she was there to talk about something else. He took his courage in both hands and asked, “Is there anything else I can do for you?”

“Yes.

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