He appeared confused, “sure. Can I ask why?”
“You’re still going to take them down, right?”
“Yes. I’ve been working behind the scenes but it’s my goal to have taken over McGrath Industries by year end.”
She licked her teeth, “I’m not very familiar with the inner workings of corporate espionage but one of the files I had included multiple folders Merlin had on the board of directors.”
“Excuse me?”
“When I went through the files, there was a folder with information he and his father probably used to keep his board in line. I thought it was smarmy, but I don’t know much about how shady companies need to be. It’s dawning on me, Trent and the board were so worried about his son’s infidelities affecting his bottom line, I wonder what would happen if his board of directors all had their secrets spilled.”
“Liesl, are you telling me you have a file Merlin put together on his own board?”
“He had it on my laptop. I moved it and deleted it from the hard drive and Elsie made sure it wasn’t anywhere on the computer. Trent’s brothers and uncles all sit on the board and even one of his aunts. I didn’t want to drag people unrelated to the situation into this quagmire but Torrie telling me the entire board of directors knew six months before I found out is making me want to ruin them all. How could they tell him to keep fucking my sister, so she’d keep her mouth shut?”
“It is quite fucked up.” Isaias was inclined to agree with her assessment.
“It really is. I want them all to burn. If you are getting your mitts on their private details and it allows you to take the company, his precious company which touts his strong family values, from Trent and make them all suffer, then I want it to happen.”
She watched as Isaias covered his mouth with his palm as if stunned by what she was revealing.
“Liesl, Merlin will know where I got it.”
“How? He’d have to prove it came from me. My house got broken into. Nobody knows I removed the information off the computer before it was stolen. The cops told me it was recovered in a pawn shop wiped clean of everything, but they told me it was being held as evidence in the break in since I said it had no nominal value. I was in a realtor’s office when my house was broken into.”
“You want me to use this?”
“I want Trent to pay. I want the Board to pay. He encouraged Merlin to keep up his affair with Sandy because of his bloody company. This family is disgusting. I want them to burn.”
“If you’re certain.”
She could feel the excitement oozing off him and she laughed, “I’m a hundred percent sure.”
“I will personally escort you to your locker.”
His eyes were bright and shiny. If she hadn’t seen what he’d been eating and drinking, she would have guessed he was drunk he was so animated. He was almost vibrating. She realized Isaias had been waiting since he was a small boy to get back at Trent McGrath for making him and his family homeless and this information would put him one step closer to revenge. It gave her perverse pleasure to assist him in reaching his dreams.
“Do you want the file he has on your company?”
“What now?” Isaias was almost standing as he edged his seat.
“Well, it’s on your company and another company out of Texas called Lubbock Enterprises.”
“You’ve had information on my company all this time?” He sat back as if unsure of how he was now feeling.
“I didn’t think you’d need it considering it’s your company and you know it inside out.” She shrugged.
“You should have told me.”
“I don’t know exactly what is in the file, only that there was one with your company name and one with the Texas company.”
“I would very much like to know what he knows.”
“I’m ready when you are.”
“I might propose, you’re so damn sexy,” he said as he helped her from her seat and smashed his lips to hers. She groaned as he lifted her clear off the floor and pushed her against the wall of the breakfast nook of the patio, kissing her until she was breathless, needy, and wanting.
“I want you.”
“Didn’t you say you have a board meeting at eight?”
“Yes, but all day long,” he ground his hips to hers, “I want you to think of how much your devious mind working jointly with mine, makes me want you. You are the sexiest woman I’ve ever met. I’m going to show you later.”
He grabbed his phone off the table, “go grab what you need to take to work. We’re leaving now.”
“What about the mess?” she looked behind her to the table as he dragged her excitedly.
“The housekeeper will get it.”
“Isaias,” she giggled at his antics when he barely let her grab her purse, his hands all over her body.
At the storage locker company, Liesl was aware of much Isaias wanted the information she had as he paced frantically outside her storage unit. She unlocked it and she moved to the back of the locker and lifted up one of her paintings in a frame. She carried it out. “Here. It’s a gift for being so considerate of my need for orgasms.”
He lifted an eyebrow as he studied the artwork noting a very distinct freckle on the canvas. “Liesl, this is your naked torso.”
“Yup. Merlin hated this piece and refused to let me show it. He made me feel very ashamed of it. I have had this storage locker for many years for the art I didn’t show.” She pointed to sculptures lining shelves. “I’ve kept everything in here he didn’t approve of. It’s not my best work and really, unless you’re intimately acquainted with me and know the mole which is right there,” she pointed to her left breast on the canvas, “nobody would know it’s me. So apart from my family who saw me topless as a small child, my ex-husband and now you, there’s not a person on the planet who would know with certainty these are my boobs.”
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