The Girl Who Stole My Boyfriend Is About to Marry a Billionaire, So I Stole the Billionaire novel · Chapter 4 of 16

Chapter 4: Cake Samples

"My ex-boyfriend," I said. "He left his laptop open."

It was the only lie I told him that day.

Lucian didn't move.

"Sit down, Ms. Quinn."

I hadn't told him my name.

Then I remembered six million people had.

I sat.

He picked up his phone. "Roof."

A minute later the steel door banged open.

A small woman in a black pantsuit and tortoiseshell glasses crossed the gravel.

She looked at me. She looked at my banker's box.

"You're the hotel girl."

"I'm an accountant," I said.

"Margo, search her bag," Lucian said.

Margo held out her hand without a word.

I gave her my purse.

She dumped it on the table next to his lunch.

Wallet. Keys. A granola bar. Lip balm. His handkerchief, folded.

Margo held up the handkerchief and looked at Lucian over her glasses.

He didn't react.

She put it down and picked up my phone.

"Unlock it."

I unlocked it.

She scrolled for a full minute while the wind pushed at my hair.

"No calls to press. No calls to the Slatterys. A lot of texts from a friend from her office telling her to eat something." She handed it back. "Clean."

[Margo!!! Best side character. She dies in chapter thirty, I refuse to talk about it.]

I tried not to look at the words above her head.

"Now tell me," Lucian said, "what you think Northgate is."

"Can I use that?"

I pointed at his tablet.

He slid it across.

I opened the state business registry, which is public, and which nobody ever checks.

I typed Northgate.

There it was. Northgate Consulting LLC. Filed eleven months ago.

I turned the screen to him.

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