Chapter 134

I almost went crazy as I sat at my desk, wringing my hands, obsessing about what was going on up in the boardroom.

Not least of all because I wondered if anybody noticed a stain on the plush carpet, or if they could detect the lingering scent of sex in the air.

“Oh God,” I whispered to myself, and put my head in my hands.

Emails went unanswered. I let calls go straight to voicemail.

I was a nervous wreck.

I played out a dozen scenarios in my head, all of them different in the particulars, but all boiling down to the same inescapable outcome:

Connor letting them know that the buyoff was off.

Would he tell them that the Teramore job was fake, designed to test the exec comp division?

Would he repeat the lie that Klaus had shown him all the files on Friday night?

And if he did, what could Klaus do but sit there and take it? Especially after he had lied right to the face of the CEO?

And if Klaus sat there, the scapegoat for the failure… just how mad was he going to be when he came out of t