The CEO Gets Her Man by Ashby Anne

Author:Ashby, Anne [Ashby, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Contemporary
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Published: 2012-12-26T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

The quiet tap on the door would never have disturbed her if she’d been asleep. Ha! Fat chance of sleep invading her psyche right now. Debra’s mind had been revolving like a stuck automatic door ever since she’d left the lobby. If the carpet had been anything but the top quality it was, she was sure a worn tread mark would have already begun to show where she’d been pacing.

She held herself dead still, even capturing her breath deep in her chest as the tap-tap sounded again. Go away, go away, her brain screamed. There were still a couple of hours before she needed to think about facing him again—a couple more hours during which she must regain some control over her wayward emotions.

As dull footsteps left her door, she slumped onto the bed. Berating herself for her weakness even as she acknowledged the impact Jase McEwan had on her, she searched for reasons to distrust the man. Finding those reasons got harder by the hour.

A call to her mother to advise her of their change of plans, and reassure a shocked Karin of her wellbeing, Debra queried the situation at Riversleigh.

Despite few details of the hotel audit being available as yet, her mother’s excited confirmation something screwy was afoot with the records had momentarily given Debra some steel for her backbone. Although Karin’s substantiation Jase was still not implicated in any way melted that steel as quickly as it had taken form.

“Are you sure?” Debra snapped. The hold on her mobile tightening until her nails nearly dug trenches into the cold metal.

“I talked to that nice red-headed boy less than an hour ago.”

Debra’s teeth tested the strength of their enamel. Remembering names wasn’t her strongest suite either, but Karin’s description of the man responsible for ousting whatever was happening at Riversleigh didn’t fortify her confidence in his ability. “What did he tell you? Word for word, Mother.”

With an impatient sigh Karin began a monologue which did sound dry enough to have come straight from an accountant’s mouth.

“So his suspicions are centred only on Murphy and her PA?”

“He wasn’t prepared to categorically say so just yet, but that was my impression. And that PA is acting very strangely. George intercepted her trying to gain access to the locked conference room this afternoon. She’s hiding something.”

“But Jase—”

“I specifically asked Terry about Jason. I know his possible involvement is concerning you.”

Debra swallowed the groan her mother’s choice of words evoked. “I am not concerned, Mother,” she ground through clenched teeth. “I just want—”

“I know exactly what you want, Deb, and I must say I approve wholeheartedly.”

This time the groan couldn’t be subdued. “Just tell me the moment you hear Jase might be implicated in any way at all.” Debra clicked off with Karin’s knowing little chuckle still echoing in her ear.

Debra was ready when Jase next tapped on the door. She’d spent most of the hour since talking to her mother lying in the bath. With a whole canister of bath

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