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She was beautiful and he wanted her, but he didn’t want to hack, and he didn’t want to be her lapdog. “If I’m working under your ‘guidance’ why the fuck don’t you do it?”
Lanky Harry shook his head. “Lara, you really don’t have to put up with this. It’s not worth it. I warned you he wouldn’t know how to behave.”
That annoyed Draco. “How do we know you’re not the one draining the company’s fuel?”
Lara laughed, briefly. “He has a point, Harry. Now, you agreed this was one way to approach the matter, let me see it through.
Lanky Harry gestured dismissively and faced front. Draco noticed him glaring at them in the rear-view mirror and winked at him.
“Uncivilized,” Harry shot back. “Just as I expected. Doesn’t even have a real name.”
“Draco Vaughn. Pleased to meet you.” He inclined his head at the girl, who was even younger than he’d first thought. Maybe only nineteen or twenty, a similar age to his sister, Sky.
“Draco,” she repeated, staring at him with wide eyes.
He wanted her. “Thanks for the offer, but I don’t hack any more. I’m not going to jail, not for anyone, no matter how gorgeous.”
She ignored his flattery, opened up her laptop bag and pulled out a printed document, gesturing at it. “No one is going to jail. If our mission is exposed before completion, you’ll have a signed contract from me to cover your back, proving you’re acting on my instructions. I’m the one who’ll take the rap”
Draco studied her silently. She did have it all worked out, and if he took her at face value and she was being honest, she could be in big trouble. If it went badly she was the one in the firing line. “Basically, you want to impress your dad?”
“That’s not exactly how I would put it, but yes, I suppose so.” She gave a trite smile. “I prefer to think of it as getting the results for the family company before my brothers do.”
“Ah, so you want to beat your brothers to the prize.”
She looked at him over the edge of her glasses then pushed them up to the bridge of her nose with one finger and tried once again to draw his attention to the document.
“I’ll admit there’s an element of competition in it. I’m the one taking the most risks with a maverick approach to the investigation.” She threw him an accusing glance. “But they have a head start on me. I’m joining the competition late.”
“What happened, weren’t you invited?”
She inhaled deeply and paused before she replied.
Draco smiled himself. He’d hit a nerve there. She may be all fancy, playing the business dude and trying to impress him with her chauffeur driven car and her lanky buddy trailing behind her, but he could see there was more to it.
“In one sense, you’re right. I wasn’t invited. The truth of the matter is my father thinks I’m too young to take part in the business. I don’t agree. I’ve completed one year of my business degree. He’s allowed me on the inside during summer vacation and I want to prove my worth.”
“Now it’s getting interesting.”
Her mouth twitched. “Don’t push your luck, Buddy, I can always offer the job to someone else.”
He leaned forward closing in on her. “You’re ‘investigation’ shall we call it, is more of an undercover job.”
She gave a slight nod, as if in approval. “That’s it exactly. My investigation will be undercover and that’s something you’d have to understand.”
“I still don’t see how this job won’t entail hacking.”
“Well, you’ll be going in through my password or one that you get allocated once I get you a placement in the company.”
This was sounding more interesting by the moment. “Password? Where’s the fun in that?”
“There’ll be plenty of challenges, believe me. If my father hasn’t figured it out already, it’s going to be a tough job to crack.”
“Maybe your father has figured it out already and it’s just a game for his kids.”
She glared at him.
Draco laughed.
