Page 24 of Silver Fox
Lifting Skye’s palm to my lips, I press a kiss to the center. “I’m not the only one that feels this connection, am I?”
Skye shakes her head, her shoulders relaxing. “No.”
“Then you’re not going to protest me taking you back to my apartment for a few days, are you?” The reports Kenneth has been sending over are woefully inadequate against Skye’s spreadsheets.
I may believe that she’s innocent, but I still want to keep a close eye on her. And my apartment is covered in cameras.
And you want to keep her, a dark voice in my mind whispers to me.
“N—” She stops, her expression morphing from relaxed and well-pleasured to hesitation. “What about my cat?”
“Bryaxis?”
“I still can’t believe you remembered his name,” she says shyly, a soft smile on her lips.
“I may be older than you, but I’m notthatold. He can come too. I won’t have him on the streets.” Our lips meet in a gentle kiss, unspoken emotions swirling around us like a whirlwind. “Let’s get you dressed, and then Bryaxis and I can be formally introduced.”
Her smile almost lights up the room.
“Because I’m going to need your help sorting out this embezzlement mess. If my logistics director is lying, I need to find out why.”
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Skye
Idon’tknowhowmany hours of security footage Silas and I have trawled through over the last couple weeks, but two things have become clear.
One: My manager, Kenneth, left the office every time he called me to give me permission to access his account remotely, meaning there’s no audio recording of what he said.
Two: Bryaxis is as much of a traitorous little bastard as Kenneth.
Brett and Bryaxis were never close. He always complained that Axi was uncontrollable and unloving. Not to mention his name. “I’m not going to call it that stupid freaking book name,” he’d said after I first bought Axi home.
Maybe that was why I always thought Bryaxis was a one-woman cat.
Nope.
I just never had competition.
And now I look at Silas using his laptop one-handed, holding a purring Axi on his chest. The two have been inseparable, even after that furry little bugger smashed one of Silas’s antique vases to pieces. If it were Brett, he would have demanded that we get rid of Axi, but Silas just seems to roll with the punches.
And I kinda love it.
That—and the sex.
Because holy fuck, that man is insatiable. I never knew my sex drive could be this high, but apparently your sex drive can change depending on who you’re with. Whilst Silas was in a virtual meeting yesterday, I decided to take off my panties, change into a skirt, and sit opposite him, letting my legs fall open just enough for him to notice.
He was in the meeting for approximately three minutes.
We end up talking for hours after making love, discussing everything from our respective childhoods to the self-driving system on Silas’s new car to cat training videos. Everything feels natural with him, and if Bryaxis is entirely in love with him, then I don’t think I’m far behind.
On my laptop, I’m scanning through the security footage of the first fortnight of my employment at Silver Mobility. Using my phone records as a guide, I see that Kenneth called me just before midday on December 9th.
Just like clockwork, he leaves the office and goes out to the parking lot. It’s the same routine every time, but Ineedhim to make the call in the office—because the security footage records audio and video round the clock. If there’s an audio recording of Kenneth telling me to log into his account remotely to pay out fraudulent invoices, then I’m told there’s probable cause for a warrant.
Only then is Silas getting the police involved, he says, and I’m grateful. If the police got involved now, I would be their number one suspect.
And Jesus, I wouldn’t blame them. There’s weeks and weeks of evidence of me paying out fraudulent invoices, and hundreds of thousands of dollars missing.
