Jienne chuckled.“You got him out of me, didn’t you?”
“I probably did.I also cleared out Drin and her guys.”
“How?”
“I have done it before, and it is likely that I will do it again.”She whistled softly as she turned off the main road toward her neighbourhood.She drove past Kritz and Arcady’s weekend home, went down a block, and then turned, heading past Ekron’s house, where the consortium lived, and Jienne gasped.
“This place is expensive!”
“Naw, that place is pricey.”She drove up to her gates, and they slowly swung open.“This place is expensive.”
Jienne exhaled slowly as they drove up toward the house and the gates closed behind them.“So, you are rich.”
“No, I work for my money.If you are born to it, you are rich.I am just successful.”
“Just?”
Ava laughed.
A huge shadow came and raced next to the car.Jienne gasped, and they screeched to a halt in front of the doors, and the big creature stopped in front of the vehicle.Ava put the vehicle in park and got out.
She closed the door and walked around the vehicle to hug the beast in front of them.Jienne slowly leaned out of the car.“Is it safe?”
“Jienne, this is Nigel.Nigel, this is Jienne.”
“What is...he?”
“He.”The booming voice came from the beast.Jienne jumped back and screamed.
Ava laughed and fell on her ass.“Oh, that never gets old.”
Nigel growled.“It isn’t funny.She’s terrified.”
Ava sighed and got to her feet.“Come on, Jienne.Nigel was made in the same lab I was.As soon as I could get him out, I did.”
“Lab?”
“Sure.I am Uraddan.I escaped nineteen years ago.I went back for Nigel twelve years ago, but he is hard to hide in the great outdoors.It’s easier to hide him in a city.”
Nigel murmured, “I like the trees here.”
She laughed and scratched under his chin.“Come on inside, Jienne.I don’t have a housekeeper.I have a ton of bots.Did you want food or just some rest tonight?”
“Rest, please.I had a long day.The long shifts in these heels are intense.”
“Righto.This way.”
Jienne said, “Is that a pool?”
“One of them.Thanks to grocery delivery, I can stay here ninety percent of the time.That is where the money shows up.”
“So, you invest other people’s money?”
“Not usually.I stick to my own.With other people, I can take what they wouldn’t mind losing and work with it, dumping any profit into a special account once a month.That way, only the initial money is ever at risk.”
Jienne paused.“Can you use five hundred and see what it does?”
Ava chuckled.“I can.Are you able to lose it?”
