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Micah gives a dry laugh “More careful than we’re already being?”

“More careful than you can possibly iainst politicians rather than the tabloids This isn’t about getting a hot story This is about shifting power And that o”

Heavy silence fills the rooo orried that the tabloids would catch wind of us owning sex clubs and it would be the next big scandal But that’s the least of our worries Micah has Allie Darius has Taylor Now they are tied up in all this and it’s pretty obvious from their firm expressions they don’t want their women involved And for that I can’t blame them I don’t want Hadley near this either, and she’s not even mine

Micah finally breaks the silence “Will you continue to search for the person behind the bugs?”

“Honestly, it’s a dead end,” I adles after Darius was in the tabloids and we first discovered the bugs “There were no fingerprints to find out who put them there Yes, if I find the person behind them, I’m sure it will lead us to the one responsible for all of this, and I can only iotten nowhere on that front” I ask Gabe, “Have you gotten anywhere on the video?” The last time we talked, we discussed the security cameras that Gabe had put in his pub From what I’d seen, an hour had been cut fro the company to see if they had a backup

He shakes his head “Sadly, I’ hour couldn’t be recovered from the server”

Thick tension fills the roo off the men around me, till Darius finally asks me, “What’s your plan then?”

“I’ll need to focus on the senator for the ti my words so as not to seem disloyal to them “If I find out more about the senator’s situation, I think it will lead to the person recording us”

Nods follow, and it’s an a friendship that no one questions my plan or doubts my direction

Gabe asks, “What do you need us to do?”

“Keep playing along,” I instruct the group “We need to wait for that story about Micah being investigated for fraud to coo, we’d purposely fed the tabloids this story while sitting in the pub, knowing the bugs would record our conversation One, to keep the heat off us for a little while so we could find out as tapping us Two, because the story had no truth to it whatsoever In time, the tabloids would learn this But that’s why I hadn’t res We needed to control what the tabloids were printing None of us wanted our dirty laundry spread across a cover for all to read We all had so to hide “While they’ve recently taken an odd interest inyou can deter the ain at the table, and leave so that’s juicier that they could print regarding this fraud”

Micah nods “That I can do, but since they haven’t printed the story yet, I wonder what else could entice them to do it now?”

“Whatever you do, ht of all this landing on my shoulders “The second the stories stop, whoever is responsible for this is going to realize we’ve caught on to what they’re doing The best chance at finding the up the illusion that we are clueless about it all”

“And you have no doubt you’ll find them?” Gabe asks

“Find?” I shakeof the position they’ve put Hadley andto squeeze until they have nowhere to run”