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Susan nodded and her baby pacifiers danced at her earlobes She lowered her voice "Yes Word on the street is that Adam had a shit-fit when the scandal broke and wanted to pull the plug on the IPO Jordan’s been working on this for years Adaave him teeks to see if he can make it work, so obviously Jordan’s pretty upset I think you et for his frustrations"

I looked away guiltily It et--and not for the reason she thought--but there was no way Susan could know that I sed a ball of lead and blinked back soood at all

I knew froe expense and at least two years of hard work to get a coet bankers on your side, especially for a young and relatively inexperienced CFO like Jordan

"Yeah, and the bankers aren’t too pleased that there is a company employee involved in this mess Since they are the ones ould underwrite the initial stock shares on the day the cooes public, their financial risk is pretty hefty"

I nodded If things didn’t go perfectly in an IPO, a co and successful companies very recently They’d been valued at a certain price and then their shares dropped in price the second the co them millions--sometimes even billions

And that could happen to Draco, all because of my stupid sex video Shit

No wonder Jordan looked at me like he wanted to literally eat me alive

I leaned in "So that’s why he’s been out soso ossip session, but would you twosome work done?"

We both jumped and found ourselves face-to-face with the subject of our discussion My eyes slid down Jordan’s powerful form He was dressed in suit and tie--as he was pretty much every day since the return from Comic-Con And he looked as exhausted as I felt Not that it oing mail on the desk in front of us, spun and entered his office

With shaky hands, I reached out and started sifting through the envelopes "These need addresses…" I snatched up a lavender envelope that was blank A love letter?

There was a sticky note attached, on which he’d scrawled, "Moot it was his mom’s birthday this week! I didn’t even have to re up the address on her laptop