When "the scentless" Elena thought she would be laid off by her manager, she never expected her new billionaire boss to be her high school crush Charles....Manager: "Sir, I think there's been a mistake. How is she staying? And I'm not? This isn't right.""You're right," Charles said, leaning forward over the table. "I'm sorry Elena. I forgot to mention you aren't going to be working here either."Manager's face set into a smug smirk."You'll be joining my team."There was a simultaneous gasp around the room.
View MoreThe hospital discharged me four days after Wendy told me about my interview. I’d called Bruce Conroy and asked if he could switch the interview. Not that I’d tried too hard. When he said no, I simply accepted the answer and told Charles he’d denied the request.Charles left the hospital, furious, when I told him the arrangements were for Anthony to pick me up and do the interview, then take me home. He’d slammed the door on his way out, making all the nurses shriek.I knew Anthony had arrived when one of the nurses came in, flushed and fluttering her hand to fan herself. “Elena. He’s here. And you could fry bacon on him he&rsquo
Two days later, I was sitting in my bed playing cards with Theo when the door opened, and my nurse poked her head in. “Ms. Elena? There’s a Wendy Lowell here to see you.”I smiled. “Sure. Send her in.”Theo’s face went pale. Maybe I should head out or see if David can switch me for the rest of the day. He and Charles ought to be here to eat lunch with you soon.”I laughed. “You’ve been single for a while now. If she’s still that desperate, maybe you could get lucky before she leaves.”
I watched the news on and off for the duration of my first day in the infirmary, shocked by all of the changes in Packhaven. Officials were being arrested and brought in, along with CEOs and other high-ranking individuals in various companies around the country.And it wasn’t just Packhaven—the round-up of corruption spread beyond to Lustrum and even Lupinton.All the while, I was being hailed as the hero who had enabled all of this to happen. I gasped when news reporters cited pieces of my articles from the dark web, hailing how I had compiled the evidence in the face of great personal danger.
Time passed in an incoherent haze of misery. Since there were no windows in the room they’d locked me in, I had no idea how long it had been since they dragged me in there and started torturing me.Every so often, I would awaken back into the nightmare of my incarceration. My eyes were so swollen from the beatings that it was hard to see clearly. Not that it would have mattered. There was nothing inside the cement cell but me.Then, out of nowhere, the guard showed up one day and didn’t go straight to beating me. I knew it was him even though his image was blurred in my vision because I could smell his seaweedy, low-tide scent. It didn’t turn my
Charles and I were midway through dinner when the door to the apartment burst open, and five officers stormed in, weapons raised.“What’s the meaning of this?” Charles demanded.At the same time, both David and Theo jumped into action but were brushed aside by the officers. The one toward the back stepped forward, holstering his gun.“Elena Laurentia?” he asked.“Yes?” I answered, unable to feel my lips.
When I checked my dark web inbox the next morning, I nearly cried with what I found. Inside were dozens of responses to my ordeal yesterday.Somehow, the news of my being taken in for questioning had gotten out, and support had come flooding back in. Truly, it just went to show that the dark web wasn’t something evil but a place where the citizens of Packhaven and Southhaven had come together to show support for one another. And now that included me.Their response also brought up a new resolve. But before I could act on my idea, I needed to double-check with Charles because there was no way that I wanted to implement it without checking with him.
I woke up pounding on the door. A moment later, Theo burst into the room, a look of panic on his face.“What’s wrong? Charles asked, bolting upright in bed.“There’s trouble!” He rushed over to the bed and leaned down so he could whisper loud enough for Charles to hear but quiet enough so that whoever was in the living room wouldn’t be able to.“There must have been some kind of mistake,” he said. “There are palace guards here, and they’ve been ordered to arrest you.”
“Charles!” I gasped. “Since when did you get so pervy?”He chuckled, leaning in and kissing at my ear. “I’m a man. We may not say it, but we’re all perverts in our own heads.”I sighed and let my knees fall apart so that he could get easier access to my lady parts. “The time I overheard them, they were trying to be kept quiet in the second bed in the single bedroom. But I kept hearing him slap against her.”“Did it turn you on?” Charles whispered in my ear.
I broke our kiss and stepped back. “I want to continue this, but we need to finish our conversation first.”Charles looked frustrated but didn’t say anything to stop me.“I’ve hidden the laptop in my bag.”“The one that I brought in here with us?” Charles asked.“I don’t think Theo will rummage through my stuff.”“Do you really trust him that much?&
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