Thirsty For Payback (Sinful Business Series) by Marie Astor

Author:Marie Astor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, romantic suspense, happy ending, alpha male, strong woman, work romance, marie astor
Publisher: Marie Astor

Chapter 16 - Six Weeks Later

Ally took a seat behind the desk in her cubicle and logged into her computer. She’d been working for the agency in an official capacity for two weeks. So far she was yet to get an actual assignment, but her days had been busy nonetheless. She’d been occupied with additional on-the-job training, which included information on security protocols and safety procedures as well as learning the agency’s internal systems. She also moved into her new place, for which she didn’t actually have to do any moving. She was given the key to her new apartment at the end of her training, courtesy of the agency, and her belongings had already been transferred there from the storage unit prior to her arrival. Her quarters consisted of a tiny studio in a walk-up building in the East Village. At first she had been nervous about moving into agency housing: it felt as though even the most private aspects of her life would be subject to the agency’s supervision. She’d imagined a standardized dormitory complex and was instead surprised by the small but cozy studio. In spite of herself she loved it immediately—the place had everything she needed.

It’d be so easy to fall into the rhythm of her new routine, but she couldn’t afford herself such a luxury. While on the outside she might look eager to learn the ropes of her new job, her mind was feverishly working on ways to solve the mystery of her father’s demise. Of course there was always a possibility that she was imagining it all. The facts were against her, and if one relied solely on the evidence, there was a very high probability of her being wrong. It was the approach that the lawyers who had represented her father had taken, and even though he would never admit it, she knew that later on Uncle Otto also joined their ranks. And, she suspected, so did her father. Maybe she was crazy, but to her his death was the ultimate sign of giving up. The official cause of her father’s death was heart failure, but she believed that the reason he had passed away was that he no longer saw a reason to fight. She knew she couldn’t bring her father back, but she could prove his innocence, and she resolved to keep fighting until she did.

Last week she’d met with Uncle Otto. It had broken her heart to lie to him about her employment, but she couldn’t tell the truth, even to him. She was saddened to see that he was now living in a much smaller house, doing very basic legal work. Ally felt like a coward admitting to herself that under the circumstances she would’ve preferred not to see him, but it wasn’t an option. She needed to see the tests that had been performed on the equipment parts that Roberts Enterprises had installed while doing maintenance on the Pollux plants. Warrell & Kroden, the law firm that

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