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“That’s a pretty big admission.”
“You led me to believe last-minute vacations are quite normal for people.”
“People who aren’t royalty, yes, or, you know...workaholic tycoons, but that’s not what I meant.”
“Oh?”
“Stop playing naive,” she instructed him with just a tinge of annoyance. “You know what I’m talking about. You admitted that you can’t get me out of your system.”
“Are you saying I am out of yours?”
“Tell me what you’ve done to mitigate the damage to the other companies and people Skylar spied on through me,” Jenna said rather than answer that loaded question.
“You are so sure I have done something?” he asked.
She hadn’t been, but her brother’s call had made Jenna take a step back from her roiling emotions and consider. “Not sure, but hopeful.”
Something flicked in his gaze. Disappointment, maybe. “First, I have set our best fixers on the task of making sure that Skylar’s actions follow her in her reputation, without bringing your magazine, my family or Mirrus Global into it.”
Unsure how successful that endeavor could be with those caveats, Jenna nodded without enthusiasm.
This time it was easy to read the disappointment. “That does not please?”
“Let’s just say I doubt how well it can work without revealing what she did to me.” Jenna sighed, wondering if she was just expecting too much.
“You’re assuming you are the first person she targeted this way.”
Jenna had, but it was clear Dima hadn’t. “You don’t think I was.”
“The magazine was not her first job out of university, so no.”
“You think she’s always done this?” Jenna’s mind boggled at the idea.
Dima met her gaze, his gray eyes serious. “She was too proficient at it for you to have been the first employer she exploited.”
“So you’re willing to reveal another company’s embarrassment?” Jenna asked, not really thrilled by that idea either.
“Rather than see you or my family hurt? Yes.”
There was that streak of ruthlessness. And he showed no remorse about it either. Dima would do what he thought best.
“You were perfectly content to see me hurt,” she said, not willing to let him pretend otherwise.
“No. I was not.”
“Don’t shine me on, Dima. When it was a choice between hurting me and protecting your royal family, you didn’t hesitate.”
“But I was not in any way content with the outcome. Your pain and disillusionment mattered. And that really is an admission of note if you care to take it.”
CHAPTER NINE
JENNADIDN’TACTUALLYknow what to do with Dima’s admission.
If he meant it, and she thought maybe he did, then as ruthless as Dima might be, hehadregretted hurting her when he made it a point not to regret any action he considered necessary.
“And the people she’s already leaked information on?” Jenna asked, rather than dwell on something so emotionally explosive. “The ones shestillhas confidential information on that is worth selling?”
“My people went through all her electronic devices and her home for printed documentation. They took anything and everything that could be compromising to someone else. They also wiped her cloud accounts.”
