Chapter 96

Connor spent another hour intently examining file after file. He asked for the companies by name, and he seemed to know exactly what he was looking for.

I didn’t do much except look for folders as he sat in Klaus’s designer office chair, his rock ‘n roll boots propped up on Klaus’s desk, and read and read and read.

At the end, he tossed the last file on Klaus’s desk and leaned back, his fingers steepled in front of his face as he thought.

I looked at him. He looked at me.

“I feel like a cappuccino. You feel like a cappuccino?” he asked.

“Uh… I guess I could go get some Starbucks if you want,” I agreed, feeling a little let down. I’d spent the first ten minutes of our acquaintance fielding passes from him, and the last thirty minutes playing Susie Secretary. Now I was demoted to Gidget Gopher.

“Screw that,” he said. “Last time I was here, there was a pretty nice machine up in the boardroom. Want to check it out?”

My heart caught in my chest.

Exerton rented the penthouse of the building