Love and Wealth

ntered and showed up on my screen. My heart beat immediately and I was so a

as not supposed to see something like this and was never meant to find it,

ed with deposits that were ma

t, then a closer look

involved with some kind of nefarious organization, gun-running. My stomac

hey were now his masters who did everythi

e file, my hands shaking, and deleted the email. My head did spin, but

l along-a truth that would ruin h

Do I just act like

y when you knew your boss was tangled in som

ea

ce watching me with the same unreadable expression always carried on hi

working hard not to le

review again those quarterly reports for any discre

, at the opportunity to do an

and then turned, walking into his of

breathed in and out

ing huge. Nathaniel was not the type of man who impressed me to be the type tol

mething that could bring his empire crashing down

or opened, the room was filled with my grandmother's cooking fumes. S

e said, beaming down at

bing my bag onto the table

er? "Listen, Grandma, my boss happens to be connected with some crimina

ow, and I have to ta

ds drying on a towel. "You sit down and

wn. "Thanks, Grandma. I'm just

ls of that file out of my head, running them over and over again in my mind. There was so much

mself? Why hasn't he taken any ste

here? What if he was part of it?

my mind kept on racing around the ma

ve the issue at hand, yet I was just a girl picked from

ebody watching me, following me to work every day. Every e-mail

came once again into my cubicle. His warmth-as it was alwa

er onto the partition. "You look

face to the land of living. "

sed? Because you certainly don't look l

nerves, maybe. Trying to ge

h he did not quite believe me, but then nodded again. "

cas. I appr

gh guy-a person one could trust. But there was nothing I could do by bring

to keep my

ver, I knew it was nev

too dangerous. Something I would