Rising: Slay Four by Paige Laurelin

Author:Paige, Laurelin
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-942835-71-4
Publisher: Paige Press LLC
Published: 2020-05-11T16:00:00+00:00

Eleven

Edward

“Second quarter reports aren’t ready yet, but I guarantee you the earnings are well above predicted. Now is the time to double down on investment, not back out.”

I tapped my pen against my chin and stared out the suite’s living room window at the sun setting over the park. The rep from Sonovision continued his spiel through my mobile, but I was barely paying attention. The phone call had been on my agenda for days, and as it was Sunday evening (after nine in the morning in Tokyo), I hadn’t thought to cancel it until it had been upon me.

I had no real cause to cancel, anyway, except that I was distracted. Celia’s reaction to her meeting with Pierce unnerved me for several reasons. I very much wanted to hang up on Sonovision and call him instead. Whatever he’d said or done to cause my wife’s distress deserved following up, and I was eager to do so for her sake.

And I was still very much interested in negotiating for the Werner shares. That battle wasn’t anywhere near over, and if Pierce had expected his little scene tonight to dissuade me, he obviously didn’t know who he was dealing with.

But as much as I was ready and willing to attack Pierce, I was very aware that Celia was keeping me in the dark. She’d shut down entirely on the ride back to the hotel. Once in our suite, she’d occupied herself with the baby and ordering dinner. When the meal arrived, I’d hoped to have a chance to talk with her, but she’d spent the entire time on a phone call with her mother who was lamenting about the likelihood that Ron’s sentence would be announced the following day. The bits and pieces I’d gleaned from that conversation riled me up in their own way. How the woman’s concerns about her brother-in-law could still be so self-centered and trivial with no regard to Celia baffled me. Though Madge’s ignorance to what happened to her daughter might have been understandable before Ron’s arrest, it certainly seemed she should ask the question after his past was revealed. Her husband, for sure, was practicing willful denial, and so I spent my own dinner alternating between fantasies of putting Pierce in his place and fantasies of putting the Werners in theirs.

As soon as Celia hung up with her parents, my alarm went off reminding me of my scheduled phone call with Sonovision, forcing any discussion to wait even longer. All that to say, negotiating a new anime streaming service for distribution in the UK was the least of my current concerns.

“We could be ready to send a contract over in an hour,” Toshiro said, calling my attention back to him. “You could be ready to stream by August.”

He allowed me to consider. In the silence, I realized the water had stopped running in the next room, which meant Celia was done with her shower, and frankly she was the only situation I could truly invest in at the moment.

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