The Assassin’s Billionaire Bodyguard – Chapter 6
Isabella stared at her computer screen and grimaced with frustration. She was unfocused and she had made three errors so far. If she kept this up, Calvin would have her head on a platter. He demanded perfection mostly because his boss demanded it of him. She took a breath, stood up and did some stretches.
Her cell phone ringing made her cringe. She had been dodging Evgeni’s calls since he’d shown up at the offices on Tuesday. He’d even had his security guard and his driver call her.
Portia had been sending her text messages and she was now seriously considering telling the girl how much her father didn’t want her dating Evgeni.
she hit decline. With Evgeni having his friends and employees calling her she didn’t
red it furiously and spitefully, “what the hell is your pr
e,” the voice on the other end mocked her.
emanded angrily.
know?”
you want Torres?”
nds call me Cam.”
scuss it.”
onsidering asking my sister-in
he do that?”
in a dark room with an old IBM.” Isabella grinned as his deep laugh echoed in her ear and she shivered with the warm sensation of
s can you do?”
“I put people to sleep telling them about my day,” she found herself engaging with him against her better judgement, “I spend my time compiling statistical evidence and providing an analysi
ou want t
z Torres,” sh
ave a new game plan. Have dinner with me and I’ll tell you all about it
he picture.”
eam Portia but not for murdering you. Do the calculation. What are
.”
ith me?”
ther call beeped on her phone, and she groaned as she looked at her display. Evgeni again, immediately followed by a
ion do you need?”
his chair and she grinned at the realization she had his attention. “Will having dinner with you get back to your daughter and absolutely piss her off?” At his silence she continued, “I only ask because I’m not sure how much more of her vitriol I can take. She just sent me a text message which reads “yo
.
off but knowing how often your daughter has her camera on,” she chuckled lowly, “pretty sure Clara would not like the publicity of me beating up your daughter.”
hed herself in the face and bloodied her own nose,” he was quiet.
ne then?” she asked seriously as she saw Ca
ner. We can be discrete if you wish. I have a proposal and I’m still very much interested in discussing it with you
lated as soon as the word came out of her mout
“Are you free
ing widely at her discomfort.
a time and location and I’ll meet you at eight.”
lse. “Calvin, you’re being rude listening to my conversations.”
re and the wide smile and knew it had to be a man you were chatting with. It’s not often, I find you behaving like a human.”
“I’m not a human?”
de grin.
mile at his teasing. Since she’d started at Draxton while interning for college, he had been a grandfatherly figure to her, and she knew he teased her out of a place of kindness and not malevolence. “I did see your
e?”
the head server and the names of their parents and families. She wasn’t telling him.
r the day.”
it take you so long?” he s
s the third mistake, I’m going to review the entire thing over again and make certain you don’t have to send it
rrage of calls and texts from Evgeni and his girlfriend. She printed a copy of the report off and set it in front of her. Using a pencil, she went through the entire document line by line and ensured there wasn’t another error she had missed. When she was satisfied her data and findings were conclusive with no further errors, she did a final version and emailed it to her boss.
d stretched again, glad she’d finally go
g, and she answered it on the first tone recognizing t
“Hey, can you come up to my office for a minute?”
lara’s office. She didn’t often get called up to Clara’s office so when she did, she moved.
e knocked once on the door and e
p,” Clara motioned
computer screen. “What am I looking at?”
ng something. You have an ability
re’s Waldo,” she grinned wid
he schematics for a project. “This is the end goal. To get to this end goal, I need this,” she pointed to her second monitor, “to make sense and right now, something is missing.”
a computer programmer Clara,” she wasn’t sure what she was looking at.
e. My program is a series of zeroes and ones in a specific pattern. Follow the pattern and see what I’ve missed. I need to get this done today because I promised the kids, we would do the zoo tomorrow thus I can’t work on it at home. I’m frazzled and pissed off,”
ll patterns?”
stood behind Isabella.
”
e was annoyed.”
Clara.” Isabella reassured her.
mples.
oned something about avocado foam in a taco. Sacrilege.”
.”
eir thin crust pepperoni.”
ordered to wat
w over the keyboard. “Have you ever eaten at Domingo’s?”
e? I went there once with my grandfather for dinner a few months back. It was good. Why?”
to dinner.”
hair apart, “to sending his mother the d**k pick and the text messages and telling her to get her son under control.”
is his problem? You broke up years ago.”
I can’t figure it out. He’s acting like a child, and I think a lot of it has to do wi
Who then?” Clara grilled her, “you may as well tell me. I
rres,” she walk
en.
than he was openly eavesdropping on
spect for him.”
an’t be all so incredible if his daughter is such
d like his younger sister. He was pissed, took her to court and everything. Most people don’t even know he has a kid.”
Well then he’
d none of it good.”
atience and about ready to explode all over them both.”
an I give you a tip?”
e was to die for. Order it.”