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“Oh. Right.” She took a sip of her gin and tonic, her face heating slightly. “Then you understand why I’m so serious about this. And I’m done working ninety plus hour weeks.”
“I pay you well for your time and you need the money.”
“I do but not that badly.”
“Are all the issues at your mother’s house fixed already? Plumbing. Electric. Termites.”
“I really wish I’d never thought of you as a friend.”
“I’m glad you did.” He smiled. “It made things easier.”
“Things? Like what? Blackmailing me to work long hours because you know how bad my financial situation is.”
“Your financial situation is fine but for some reason you’ve taken on your mother’s problems.” He didn’t understand that, but it fascinated him. He had no obligations to anyone. Growing up unwanted and unloved made life so much easier.
“Because she’s my mom.” She said that like it made sense.
“Many wouldn’t care.”
“Many people are assholes.” Her brow raised. “Present company not excluded.”
“I’m a businessman. I make no apologies for that.”
“Most businessmen are human first.”
“I’m exceptional.”
“Yeah, an exceptional jerk.”
“Yet, you considered me your friend. Are you always friends with jerks?” He grinned. He loved winning these little arguments. He loved winning period but especially against a worthy opponent.
“I’m…” Her mouth opened and then shut, her lips turning downward in a frown. “Either tell me your offer or I’m leaving.” She glanced at her phone. “I have to go home, shower, do my hair, makeup, find an outfit and it has to be the right one. Randy and I have video chatted, but this will be the first time we see each other in person, and I need to look—”
He had to shut her up. If she didn’t stop talking about Randy and getting laid, he’d lean over and kiss her. Once his mouth touched hers there’d be no stopping him from tearing her clothes off and fucking her. It was time to dangle the bait and when she took it there’d be no wriggling loose. “I want to offer you co-ownership of Angel Face.”
She stopped in mid-sentence, her mouth hanging open for one second and Harker’s dick hardened. He wasn’t a small man, but that wide mouth could swallow him whole.
CHAPTER 7: Alison
“What did you say?” Alison couldn’t have heard Harker correctly. He wouldn’t just give her co-ownership of Angel Face.
“You heard me.” He took a sip of his drink. “I want to offer you partial ownership of Angel Face.”
“I’d be part owner of my program?” Her heart raced. Angel Face was her baby, her creation. She’d never even dreamed this would happen. She’d just been happy being able to create something that might save women from being abducted and raped.
“Yes. You’ve done an excellent job and I believe in rewarding excellence.”
“You do?” She had done an excellent job, but a tingle of suspicion danced in her head. Harker didn’t praise; he barked orders and expected results.
“Yes.” He sipped his drink. He wore his usual uniform—a white business shirt, and black slacks that matched his short, dark hair. He looked exactly like the rich urban businessman that he was. “I never praise anyone for a job well done. That’s what I hire them to do and if they don’t, I fire them. But you”—his dark eyes roamed up and down her body, making her insides tingle and sending that little suspicion in her head to a full-blown alarm—“have done much more than a good job and that calls for exceptional rewards.”
“It does?” For one second, she was speechless but that didn’t last. She could talk while puking. She’d done it many times in college. “Thank you. I didn’t think you noticed or cared or…I’m just so happy.” She smiled. “I always work hard, and Angel is such a great application. What we’re doing…It’s wonderful and I dreamt about being a bigger part, but I never thought—”
“Then you accept my offer?”
She grinned and started to speak but his words slipped past her happiness to her actual brain. “Offer? What’s the catch?”
He smiled. It was slow and for some odd reason made her stomach flip and her pussy throb. Oh lord help her. If Gus Harker was turning her on, she really, really needed to get laid, but it wouldn’t happen tonight. She glanced at her phone.
