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I smile wryly, putting a hand on her shoulder. “Thank you. Apology accepted.” I sigh. “Believe me, I did some stupid, embarrassing shit when I was eighteen, too.”
She grins.
“But I’m still not going to let you walk into that man’s office as bait.”
“Fumi, I can do this.”
“I don’t doubt that, but you’re not. Governor Hall…” I swallow the bile in the back of my throat. “Look, the circumstantial evidence of assault they have on him?” My lips thin. “It was me he did that to.”
Amber’s mouth falls open a little.
“Holy fuck, Fumi?—”
“It was a long time ago,” I exhale. “The point is, he’s a dangerous man. He has a history of doing this, and I don’t want you walking in there?—”
“Yeah, no, now I’m definitely doing it,” she mutters, her eyes locked with mine. “Let’s bring the fucking asshole down.”
By that night, Kratos and his hacker friend have entered Amber into the Governor’s office database as a volunteer staffer. The next morning, wearing a skirt that’s maybe a touch short for a government office, a top with one more button undone than perhaps appropriate, and thick-rimmed glasses that conceal a microphone, speaker and two cameras, Amber walks into the Governor’s headquarters and makes a beeline for Preston’s private office.
In the car parked outside, I watch through the viewscreen that Kratos’ friend has set up on Meredith’s laptop. My heart pounds and my throat tightens as Amber navigates Preston’s secretary and then slips, alone, into the Governor’s private office.
I start when a hand lands on my arm.
“She’ll be fine,” Maeve says quietly. “She takes jiu-jitsu.”
Maybe so, but if Hall tries anything serious with her, I’m going in there and cracking a bat over his fucking head.
“Here we go,” Meredith mutters quietly.
We all hold our collective breath as Governor Hall grins salaciously at Amber. As he makes a comment about her legs. As she giggles and laughingly protests that he “would never be interested in a girl her age”.
It takes a lot for me not to puke. Taylor has to physically grab my hand and hold tight when Hall offers Amber a drink. When she shyly says no, she shouldn’t, he suggests waiting until after work, when she could come see his penthouse in Soho.
Then comes the bullet.
“Or, how about this? You’re the prettiest girl I’ve ever seen in this office, Amber,” Hall grins, one of Amber’s cameras catching it all. “And you know, this office locks from the inside. It’s soundproof, too.”
“Oh, Governor, I…”
“How about you show me what’s under that pretty little skirt, and I show you how fast you can turn this internship into a serious career?”
I inhale sharply, my hand tightening in Taylor’s.
“Governor Hall!” Amber giggles. Christ, she’ll be a fantastic actress if that’s what she wants to do with her life. “I’m… I’m too shy.”
He chuckles. “Really? You’re too shy for this?”
Suddenly, he’s undoing his pants. Instantly, I grab the headset attached to Meredith’s laptop, which has a direct connection to the tiny speaker in Amber’s glasses.
“Get the fuck out of there, now.”
“Maybe next time, Governor!” she blurts, turning and bolting from the room.
My face is grim as I turn to lock eyes with Taylor. “Yeah?”
“Yeah,” she mutters. “Yeah. That’ll do it.”
Ten minutes later, after giving myself a pep talk in the ladies’ room and thinking of Gabriel, I blast straight past Hall’s secretary and into his office.
