Kwas thrown by how camest he sounded. "Well, then, you just need to spend in with hau. Joshua will warm up to you evennually, the started calling you Babbe, illec') Father-son SecielMaterial © of .
Austyn nodded.
And he and joshua just had their first father-son secret vis-à-vis ice cream, but he did not plan on telling Kira that.
"You should go shower." Kira stifled a yawn and sat down cross-legged on the sola
It was just past nine pm.
Austyn went to the bathroom
Kira grabbed the remote control
Unlike her husband and her precocious son, she had no interest in finance
She was about to switch the channel when she caught a familiar name.
.. Reports of fraudulent activity in Algo's sales department first surfaced last year.. Regulators were fooled by fake holdings and off-the-books accounting. Earnings are inflated..." The grim-faced news anchor concluded, "The company has reached dramatic heights in a matter of four years, but may be on its way to a dizzying fall.' Kira knitted her brows
She didn't understand all of the bizspeak, but the news was making it sound Eke the company could disintegrate overnight.
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The final shot was of Gideon carrying a laptop, hurrying away into his office building, pausing brieflyas a horde of reporters blocked his path.
Kira stared at his face onscreen before it was replaced by the next news item.
She knew he'd moved his centre of operations from Ourlana to Stamford
she was vaguely aware that Algo was involved in retail and hospitality, with a gleaming glass-façade office building in the central business district Business had prospered in the past few years, as evidenced by Gideon's increasingly hectic schedule. How did it suddenly land in hot soup?
The news seemed to hint at wrongdoings at the management level and something called 'corporate malfeasance."
Being a newswoman herself, Kira knew that the reporter would not have made such a claim unless he already had some strong evidence.
'What are you thinking so hard about?"
Kira smelled the coconut shampoo on Austyn's hair, still damp.
She used the same shampoo, yet somehow, it smelled more enticing on him.