Page 140 of The Bonus

I close the door and sit down. “Hello, Mrs. Ferrara.” I fake a smile.

She glares at me, her face emotionless and cold.

I feel myself begin to perspire as her animosity fills the room. “How can I help you?”

“I think you know.” She sits back and crosses her legs.

A bead of sweat runs down between my breasts. “No. Actually, I don’t.”

Her phone rings and she glances at the screen, she declines the call and puts it down.

My phone rings and she looks down at my screen as it sits on my desk.

Gabriel

Oh hell…worst timing. I let it ring out and it immediately rings again.

She raises her eyebrow. “He knows I’m here.”

“I don’t…”

“He has you under guard,” she says almost to herself.

Wait…what?

My phone rings again.

Gabriel

Oh hell, this is an actual nightmare. I pick up the phone.

“Don’t you dare answer that.” She sneers.

“I wasn’t going to,” I lie. I calmly turn my phone off. I begin to sweat bullets; this woman is such a bitch. “How can I help you, Mrs. Ferrara?” I say more assertively.

Her cold eyes hold mine. “How much do you want?”

“Excuse me?”

“Do not insult my intelligence, Grace, we both know you have an agenda.”

I begin to hear the adrenaline as it screams through my body.

“I have no idea what you’re talking about.”

“Oh please,” she scoffs. “Do you really expect me to believe that?”

Knock, knock, knock sounds at the door. I glance over. Who is knocking so urgently?

Knock, knock, knock.

The door busts open and a man walks in, he’s wearing a black suit and looks terrified. “Forgive me for intruding, Mrs. Ferrara.” He holds a phone out. “Gabriel wants to speak to you as a matter of urgency.”

My eyes widen, what the fuck…he does know she’s here?

I’m being watched…what the…?

She snatches the phone from him and turns it off. “Get out,” she orders him.

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