Chapter 9 : Mutually Beneficial Negotiations

It was a good thing Leo was such a bad con man—or at least a messy one, in terms of hiding the evidence—because Raven’s head was not in the game for the rest of the day at work.

Kade had gotten Raven access to Leo’s company email account, and she spent hours absently matching up promises about “legitimate” investments and preferential treatment Leo made with when that money landed in his bank accounts.

(Seriously, who conducted their fraud through undeleted emails on their proprietary company account? A genius Leo Braugh was not.)

She knew this was her moment of victory, a major bust that was doing its part in keeping the company watertight. But her mind just kept wandering hours ahead, to nine o’clock. Sharp.

She kept having to be reminded what they were talking about when Andre and Sharon tried to loop her into the conversation at lunch.

“You are seriously out of it today, Senior Risk Analyst,” said Sharon, framing it as a joke but Raven heard the note of real concern un