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“Thank you, Spencer,” Emmett said. “That’s about all we can spare, I believe.”
A few days away from Cricket might help clear your head a little too, I thought.
That night, I practically toppled into bed, tired all the way down to my bones by so many different things.
“You look pathetic, you know that, right?”
“Shup up, Piper,” I said, locking the villa door and heading toward the elevators.
I pressed the button for the bottom floor. She followed me when the doors opened.
“You look desperate to her and she’s probably lost all respect for you.”
“Shut up, Piper!”
She sighed and leaned against the glass in her satin gown. “I tried to tell you, Spencer. She’s not good for you. She’s nothing but trouble.”
“Piper, shut up, or I’ll shut you up.”
“And she’s going to take all your money,” she sang.
My blood burned in my veins and my hand found her throat and squeezed. “Shut. Up.”
She smiled and I let her go. She gasped, then started laughing. “You hate to hear the truth,” she said, borrowing my own words. “And what about your deal?” she asked.
“What deal?”
“The deal your friend made you. The phone call you got on the way back from Vegas?”
“How do you even know about that?”
“You forget, Spencer, I told you I know everything. I know he offered you the chance of a lifetime on an inside trade involving an innovative technology. I know you have every intention of taking it because it would set you and your sister up extravagantly for life. I also know that you’re two million dollars short.”
“Yeah, no thanks to you.”
She pouted. “Trust me,” she said, “if I had known the offer was coming and that you’d take it, I’d have kept your money safe.”
“And now I have no way of obtaining that two million! He’s going to need that soon! How am I supposed to get it now?”
“You’ll find a way. Borrow it.”
“From who?”
“One of your prep school boys should have that liquid easily.”
“Maybe.”
She paused and watched me. “You could blackmail someone,” she added slyly.
I narrowed my eyes at her. My stomach began to turn because I was considering it. “Who?”
“That married executive in Chicago. You could contact him and blackmail him.”
“My dad already did that!”
“Right. Your dad. Not you. You don’t think he would pay to keep you quiet as well?”
I considered it. “Maybe.”
