I straighten my skirt, pull on my underwear, and smooth my blouse and hair. He buttons his shirt, tucks it into his pants, but leaves his tie undone, like he’s relaxing at home after a particularly stressful day at work.
Embarrassed, I retreat across the room and cross my arms defensively across my chest.
“Okay… so that just happened,” I say to myself under my breath.
Apparently not quietly enough, because he lights up with a massive smile. “Yes it did.”
I cannot BELIEVE I just fucked this guy (although to be fair HOLY SHIT that was mindblowing) in my office. On a Monday morning. Thirty feet away from my coworkers.
With a Post-It note on my door telling them I’m in a ‘meeting,’ and not to interrupt.
This is not happening this is not happening this is not happening
“Why are you here?” I demand.
“Other than what we did for the last twenty minutes?” he asks with a wicked grin.
“Yeah, other than that,” I scowl.
“Returning your phone, remember?”
I glare at him. “Why are you really here?”
Suddenly he’s all business. The grin fades, and his face becomes serious. “I had to be sure you were good enough.”
I stare at him. “…what?!”
The grin comes back. “I’m not talking about the sex. I mean, it was incredible, but – ”
I wave my hands in a flurry. “Stop talking about – that – and just tell me why you’re here!”
“Even before Saturday night, I wanted to hire you – as an internet security specialist. I approached your firm about someone who could help me with a problem I have. I need the best there is, and you came highly recommended.”
“And that’s why you seduced me in a secret passageway?!”
“No, I just did that for fun. You were a lot hotter than they led me to believe.”
This guy – this fucking asshole –
“You had better start explaining things really quick,” I seethe.
“Stealing your phone was a test. I wanted you to come after me. I had my people monitoring your progress. I wanted to see how deep you could get. Turns out, you surpassed even my best tech guys’ expectations. That bit about my 27 accounts in St. Lucia and the Seychelles? Nice touch.”
“…your best tech guys?” I ask, not comprehending.
“I’ve got an entire team.”
“Then what do you need me for?”
“I need someone on the outside. Someone who’s not connected to me. Paradoxically, a stranger is the only person I can trust right now. I don’t know if he can get to my people, and I don’t want to take that chance.”
Figuring out what Grant’s saying is a bit difficult, given that I’m still suffering from orgasm brain. “If ‘he’ can get to your people? Who is ‘he’?”
Grant shakes his head. “I don’t know.”
I put my hand against my forehead like I’ve got a raging headache. “Look, I don’t know what the hell you’re talking about, but – ”
“I looked into your background. I know about the hacking when you were a teen. I know about Anonymous, I know about your friend Mailin, I know about MIT. I know what you’re capable of. But I had to find out if you still had a killer’s instinct. It appears you do – and that’s exactly what I need.”
I stare at him.
He knows about Mailin.
He knows about the hacking.
“…how…?”
“Not important right now. What is important is that I’ve engaged your services by paying your company, but I need to know if you’re on board. My life might be on the line here.”
“I don’t understand.”
He leans forward intently. “I need to know if I can trust you. Totally and completely.”
“Trust me how?”
“As a hacker. As an internet security expert.”
“Look, I can test your systems, fix the loopholes I find, make sure nobody can – ”
“That’s not what I need.”
God, I want to shoot this guy. He just keeps going in circles.
“Why don’t you cut to the fucking chase and tell me exactly what’s going on,” I snap.
He looks at me for a long while, as though weighing me. Seeing if I’m worthy. Finally he nods, as though he’s decided.
“Someone’s trying to kill me. And I need you to help me find him… before he gets to me.”
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