Chapter 16

Sarah

- Sarah, I need you here in 20 minutes.

- Yes, Simon.

I hang up the phone and get up. No matter what I was doing when Simon called, meetings and business were postponed just by him summoning me to his office.

I knew this was part of the other business. He will not call me at the middle of the day for anything else.

- Who was that? Where are we going?

- We're not going anywhere. I am. You stay there and finish your work.

-Who was it, Sarah?

- You know it was your father.

David gets up.

- I'll go with you.

- No, you won't. If Simon wanted you to go too, he had said so.

David narrows his eyes.

- Are you going to do something dangerous?

I look at him and shake my head.

- David, don't ask questions. When your father wants you to know something, he will tell you.

- Fuck that. I will never be part of my father's "business." - he says, making quotation marks with his fingers.

- Please don't set my office on fire. I don't want you to smoke in here.

- Yes, boss. - he says, saluting. - but