Page 33 of One Night Billionaire

Jose laughed. “She needs more than that.”

“Agreed.”

Brian took his seat at the computer he was using yesterday and then realized he didn’t have much to do anymore. With the problem solved, only so many people could work at one time to resolve it.

Each person was working on a different problem, and they were all covered. He leaned back in the chair and let his thoughts drift back to his current problem, Anna.

She had messed up with him, too. He couldn’t place all the blame on her, though. He was too much and had pushed her too hard. The only problem was that he didn’t think he could fix it at all. She had every right to be mad at him and stay that way. He didn’t blame her.

“Damn,” he said under his breath.

“Boss?” Jose asked.

“Sorry. I was thinking about something else. What’s up?” Brian shook his clouded thoughts.

“We’re getting close if you want to wake her,” Jose said.

“Already?” Brian looked down at his watch. He’d been zoned out for nearly two hours. “I’ll go get her.”

Jose chuckled. “Looks like she wasn’t the only one that needed a break.”

“I think we are all long overdue for one.”

Brian stood and headed for the door to the conference room to get Anna.

He didn’t have to. She appeared in the conference room as though their discussion had roused her. She still looked sleepy but better than she had before.

“You didn’t wake me,” she said, pointing at Brian.

“You needed it,” he told her.

She didn’t press further, and he let it drop. It was the closest he would get to her relenting so he took it.

“That’s it!” Jose yelled.

Everyone scrambled to look at the logs he had up on the projector. Everything had finally run without an error. He was thrilled or would be if his thoughts would stay off the woman next to him.

Anna poured over every detail with the team as Brian sat in the back and watched. They debated each step and made sure there was nothing that seemed out of place. It looked good to him, but he knew that Anna would make sure it was perfect.

She was frustrating as hell. Or at least he was frustrated. She seemed fine around him like none of her life had been changed by everything that had happened between them. Maybe that was what was bothering him the most.

Once she wasn’t here, he would maybe, just maybe, be able to move on. Seeing her unbothered each day was affecting him and his work.

“You guys are amazing,” Anna gushed to the team.

“It was all you. You found what we needed, all we did was grunt work,” Jose laughed.

“Eh, don’t sell yourself so short,” Anna patted him on the back.

It took another few hours to wind everything down and for the team to get ready to leave. They ran the program on several computers with different parameters, looking for anything else, but nothing happened.

“We did it,” Anna practically squealed as the last run of the program finished.

“I can’t get it to trip itself up again at all.”

“I think this is finally it, and we can put this record-breaking race to the finish line in the books,” Jose agreed.

“In that case, everyone can head home. We are done for the day. Thank you all for putting up with me and coming in this weekend to knock it out,” Anna said.

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