Page 101 of Opposites (Never) Attract
There was no way, I thought, that the wanted poster had been…
“Again?!” I shouted, seeing a new tag line underneath my picture.
Wanted: Sunshine Calloway - If her crazy crypto plan doesn’t work
“I know,” Mom said. “Obviously, it’s someone who was at the town meeting, but it’s crazy how no one ever sees who does this. A complete mystery.”
I fought the desire to bite my nail and to tear down the stupid poster. “It sounds like the town might still be uncertain about my plan.”
“Why do you say that?” Mom asked.
“Uh, because it says crazy crypto plan.”
“Maybe,” Monica admitted. “But there’s nothing to be done about it. We voted at the council meeting and what happens, happens.”
“Just what I needed,” I muttered, under my breath. “More pressure.”
My mother patted me on the back. “That’s your special skill set, dear. Handling the pressure.”
She wasn’t wrong, but it was kind of sweet that she noticed.
Momand I sat down at a small four top table. Amity was going to join us once Marion, one of the teenagers in town who she’d hired for some part time work, showed up for her shift.
Bliss was also coming over before she opened the bar.
As long as Harmony didn’t join us, I thought, we’d be fine.
No talk of Tag. No talk of me falling asleep at his place and what that meant.
Not that it meant anything.
Only, that since I was twelve years old, I’d never slept through the night without my thoughts waking me up at some point…except last night.
Last night, I’d slept so soundly until my ridiculous half-brothers woke me up. Again.
I didn’t want to talk about it. I didn’t want to think about anything except the end goal.
The South Korean export market was signaling a run and that was going to be our chance to catch the tiger by the tail. The market would surge, and when it did, I was going to see a mass spike in value which I needed to then sell at its peak before it regulated. Another day, two, tops.
What wasn’t helping my anxiety, was the fact that Clive Bohman knew one of the partners in the firm. He hadn’t mentioned who it was, but what if he reached out to him?
It was bad enough Jared was all over my ass and contacting my clients without clearance from me.
I wasn’t doing anything unethical. It wasn’t like I was misappropriating funds to buy bitcoin. Every penny we’d poured into this operation had been McGraw money. And some of my own personal savings which I could use for any reason I chose.
It was more of an implied rule at Berkley.
Don’t invest on behalf of family. You lose perspective, and when you lose perspective…you lose money.
Still, it’s not like they could fire me over it.
Could they?
The door to the Last Meal opened, and my relief that Harmony wouldn’t be joining us crashed and burned when I saw her coming in behind Bliss and making a beeline for us. The expression on her face spelled trouble for me.
“Oh, no,” I muttered.
“What’s the matter?” My mother asked, and then looked up to see my sisters approaching. “Oh, how nice. We’re all here. Sunshine, grab that extra chair from the table and we’ll scootch in.”
