The Dirty Anthology by Anthology

Author:Anthology [Anthology]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B00ZJ5XR5Q
Publisher: K.I. Lynn
Published: 2015-07-14T23:00:00+00:00

13

I slam my hand onto the scanner and rush out of the lab as soon as the doors slide open. The world around me threatens to spin.

I don’t stop.

Can’t.

My entire life got wrecked by the centrifugal force of losing one girl.

It happened without my knowing it. It happened way before I could comprehend it. After years of analyzing the sick, twisted obsession in my veins, I realized it happened the very first time I laid eyes on her.

First day of Kindergarten.

That girl became the entire world to me. Fuck that, the center of my universe. Without her, I was thrown completely out of orbit.

I should’ve found another reason to go on, another reason to live.

I couldn’t.

It’s impossible. I lived for her back then; I live for her now.

And she’s here, in my building, working for my company, her presence pulling me toward her, right back into my proper orbit.

“Drew!”

My uncle.

As far as I know, he never knew what Lexi had come to mean to me. He knows I self-destructed at one point, but not the real reason why.

Anger sparks regardless. For the last two days, he’s been raving about the new IT girl, and how he stole her away from Menahan—

I freeze, unseeing. Disbelieving.

Lexi had been working for Stephen? Stephen? One of the bastards responsible for hurting her.

My uncle catches up to me. “Andrew.”

I whirl on him. “Did you know who she is when you hired her?” I sound as obsessed as I am. Probably look it, too.

There’s astonishment in my uncle’s dark eyes, as well as that analytical gleam I’ve come to know so well. Like he’s putting the pieces together and realizing what my reaction’s really about. “I know you know her since you were kids.”

Know her? I fucking breathe for the girl. Closing my eyes, I fight to resist the pull of her presence. I don’t know what I’m going to do the moment I see her. If I’ll be able to control myself.

I need some answers first.

“She was working for Stephen?”

My uncle hesitates. Most likely has to do with the fact that I haven’t opened my eyes and I’ve lost control of my inner psycho. “Yes. For years we heard rumors of his ‘hidden asset’, the person responsible for giving his company such a huge technological edge.”

Lexi was always a genius. Beyond brilliant. “Why was she working for Stephen?” I almost can’t accept this fact. Don’t want to.

All these years of searching for her, dying for her, and she’d been with Stephen of all people.

Rage burns through my veins.

“I don’t know, Andrew. That’s something you’ll have to ask her,” my uncle says.

Oh, I plan to. “How long was she working for him?”

“Andrew—”

“Answer. Me.”

“The contract between them went into effect in 2012. It was almost ironclad. It took our legal team months to break through it, as well as some help from Ms. Berkman herself.”

Like the pathetic, starving man I am, I latch onto that with every bit of strength inside me. “So she wanted to stop working for him?”

“Yes.

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