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Genevieve mulled it over for a second. Johnson knew how to drive a hard bargain.
Chances were his second condition was his real aim all along.
He asked for a lot of money, but TuringTech Innovations wasn’t worth that kind of money right
ΠΟΥ.
But if Genevieve could keep all the patents and tech, it would save her a heck of a headache down the road. So, maybe there was room to negotiate after all.
Genevieve smiled and said, “We’ll need to hash out the specifics.”
That was her way of tentatively agreeing to his terms, with a clear message: she had conditions of her own that needed to be met.
Johnson smiled and raised his eyebrows, raising the glass in his hand. “Here’s to a fruitful partnership!”
They were surrounded by swarms of people. Genevieve didn’t overthink it and took a polite sip from her glass. The fruit wine packed more of a punch than she expected, but she swallowed it down anyway.
Johnson was beaming as he stood up, “Ms. Lawrence, my secretary is also here. Why don’t we take this to her room to go over the finer points?”
He seemed pleased to reach an agreement. Whipping out his phone right in front of her, he dialed up his secretary to get her room number, eager to get going.
Genevieve was stunned for a few seconds. She knew Johnson was gay, so she hadn’t really been on guard around him. She figured she might as well strike while the iron’s hot and hammer out the contract details, so she didn’t decline the offer.
She sent a quick text to Louis to keep him in the loop and followed Johnson upstairs, remembering that the secretary’s room was 602. What she didn’t realize was that her message was never sent,
Riding the elevator up, Genevieve exited onto a floor that was all rest and relaxation, the plush carpet making it a quiet zone.
she stepped off, a heavy fog seemed to
on the railing, she let
head. She fumbled for her phone only to realize the signal was jammed–she couldn’t make a call to save her life.
thoughts. ‘Could it
right, clenched her fist tightly, and was just about to turn
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the door opposite her flung
arm and pulled hard into the room.
body felt weak and her mind was groggy; she had no strength to fight
inside, threw her to the floor, and locked the door behind
she tried to get up. looking at him. “Johnson, have you lost your
a trap set
shedding any pretense of his normally cordial demeanor, taking on a chilling air. He took off his watch with a smirk that
item from
go missing, people will start looking for me.”
a camera. Then he turned to Genevieve, “Ms. Lawrence, just bad luck on your part. Someone offered a pretty penny for a video of us together,
unbutton his shirt, greedy as a gambler eyeing his chips, looking as though he wanted. to devour her and claim the
palm to stay alert. “I
no one here can save you. Today’s Anthony’s engagement and everyone’s focus is elsewhere. Don’t be scared, I’m quite gentle with women…” He tugged at the whip in his hand, faking a smile that did
next second, he raised the whip, lashing it viciously
firework burst open in the night sky, illuminating half of the
into an extravaganza of multicolored
about to fade away, they suddenly
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