HIS STRIPPER, HIS WIFE novel Chapter 13

Chapter 13

Chapter 13

Adrain

Immediately the door clicked shut behind her, I let out a slow breath and leaned back in my chair.

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“She is doing so well.” the thought came before I could stop it, and I let it sit there for a second because it was true. The board call running over, the legal addendum, the procurement disaster, and through all of it she had not flinched once She just moved from one fire to the next like she had been doing this for years.

I picked up the revised briefing she had just dropped off and told myself I was reading it.

I was not reading it, I was thinking about the way she walked in this morning in that fitted black pencil skirt with the white blouse tucked in just right, and the way she smelled when she crossed the desk to take the schedule card from me, close enough that I had to actively redirect my attention back to the documents in front of me.

She was still doing that thing where her face said “professional” and her eyes said something else entirely. And she had absolutely no idea what she looked like standing in my office doorway holding that notepad, and I was starting to think that was the most dangerous thing about her.

I should probably just bend her over this table, this wouldn’t be the first time…

“No.” I pressed two fingers to my temple. “Adrian, stop. She is your employee.” I said it quietly trying to put myself together as I picked the document back up.

I heard a loud knock and the door opened before I finished saying come in, which meant it was Felix, because Felix operated on his own timeline with doors.

He stepped inside, took one look around the office like he was confirming it was real, and then looked at me. “Boss,” he said.

“Felix.”

“I went to your house this morning.” He let that land. “Your housekeeper told me you had already left for the office.”

“As you can see, that’s correct.”

“Boss.” He spread his hands slightly. “You said yesterday we were not resuming here yet. You said it yourself. I have it in my

notes.”

I stood up from behind the desk and walked around to the front of it. “Change of plans.”

He opened his mouth.

“Felix.”

He closed his mouth, then he opened it again because Felix had never truly learned. “But boss, the logistics alone, I had to reschedule three things this morning, and nobody told the security team, so when I got here they had me waiting downstairs for twenty minutes like I was a walk-in client, twenty minutes, and I was wearing my good shoes today of all days and the lobby floor is slippery and my back has not been the same since…”

“Is it here?” I cut him off.

He stopped, reached under his arm and brought out a folder he had been holding the whole time and handed it over.

I took it and flipped it open, inside was everything and by everything. I meant everything. Employment history, education records, address and family history.

One sibling, a younger sister. Currently admitted at the hospital, surgery was three days ago, apparently successful.

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Outstanding hospital bill sitting at exactly twelve thousand and forty dollars.

I stood there for a moment and read that last part again. Could this be the reason she has a double life?

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“Interesting.” I said, mostly to myself but loud enough that Felix straightened up slightly because he knew that particular

tone.

I closed the folder. “Pull the remaining balance on the hospital bill,” I said.

“Whatever is still outstanding, move it from the miscellaneous budget and have it wired to the hospital anonymously. Do it today.”

Felix blinked. “Boss, are you sure that you want to…”

“Right away, Felix.”

He looked at me for one more second, doing the mental calculation of whether this was a hill worth standing on. It was not and he knew it.

“Yes sir.”

“And leave whatever you have on Bianca on your way out.”

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