Love and Wealth

. I stared at the email-my heart racing, my hands sh

eal?" I whispe

screen in bold, but I was

etary to Natha

st companies in the city. And Nathaniel Sterling was pretty well untouchable-a man who never inte

hat instant, it all just changed. The pay alone covered her medication and then some other things. But why me, th

t: be at Sterling Enterprises next morning, 8:

ng Enterprises, my heart thundering against my chest. Glass doors

going back," I said, laboriousl

hich each click of my worn heels echoed. I walked towards the reception desk, where my throat starte

you?" She

he started to tap her fingers across the keyboard. A mome

ght behind me, and I felt myself being whisked into a world far, far removed from dirt and

he whole floor was bathed in natural light streaming in via floor-to-ceiling skylights and gave one, a great view right acro

ce was low, velvety, authorita

h though my chest seemed to have

impeccably tailored; his dark hair perfectly styled. He looked like a man capable of squashing anyone who so much d

ding at a chair across

nce to get cold feet. He sat down across from me, clasping his hands

re wondering w

n," I said with my voice even shaking a bi

e a smile. "You're here because I need someone with quick reflexes-in their i

eople in this city couldn't even i

h what he had just said. He kn

was unknown, nor did

your grandmother, juggling jobs just to get by," he said in a

of his words sank in. "H

t the people I hire," he said smoothly. "Which

you can handle more. I'm offering

s-are you read

ole life was a scrape-by existence, and I'd never thought I would ever sit in an

ould never fathom why you would want me over som

lent. I don't take too well to defeat. You'll be working v

but the rewards are g

Yes. We do

ss in his grasp leaving little to the imaginati

y hand and standing. "You start

but now it was with exciteme

d as I turned to take my le

loose a deep breath. It finally was, quite possibly happening-

in the future remained unknown to me. There was surely on