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“Yes. I’m here.” She went back inside the toilet. He stood there with a towel barely large enough to cover him. She reached and got a larger towel. Tarek had an issue with raising his arm.

“Something wrong?” he asked her.

She kept her gaze averted away. “You know you are going to feel like crap for a long while. You’re seriously hurt,” she tried to change the subject.

“I want you to pull that report together. Change the numbers. I need something I can send to the board that’s plausible.”

“It won’t work. They’ll see through my proposal.”

“You’re good. Give yourself some credit. Work on it for me. While I rest. Can you do that?”

She helped him to the bed. She helped him lay down on it. He winced and she covered his legs and his body to make him comfortable.

“I’ll try. Are you still going to go through with this business proposal you gave that man? After this.”

“Definitely,” Tarek smiled. “I have his respect now. All I need his money.”

“Oh, ah, Tarek?”

“Yes?”

“Earlier. Yegor, he said your brother Dale used another woman to get close to you. Who was she?”

“No one.” Tarek said.

Kassidy stared at him for a moment. She didn’t understand what she knew as a child and what she was learning now. She didn’t understand him.

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