Because he was a fucking badass and nothing was too advanced for him.
Dutton’s father and our father were brothers, and he hadgrown up in Laguna Beach. In high school, Dutton was either surfing the waves or dreaming about them. But he gave up the Pacific surge for Boston, where he attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology for his undergrad and Harvard for his master’s degree. While studying at both schools, he had built quite a reputation for himself, and although all the top cybersecurity companies in the country recruited him, he had gone out on his own. He kept his company small, only a handful of employees located around the world, and he was very specific about the clients he took on. Dutton didn’t specialize in security prevention. Known as The Fixer, he came in after the threat or attack. Once Dutton got involved, there would never be a vulnerable link within that company’s chain.
That was the kind of person we needed for this project.
“Couldn’t the Gordons prove the weakness was man-made?” Walker asked.
“Let me put this in the simplest terms.” Dutton gazed at each of our faces. “In every organization, there’s a ball of yarn, and where there’s yarn, there’s a cat digging at the ball until it finds the end. As you can imagine, the moment the end is found, the cat can unravel the ball. Or, if the organization is smart, they stop that before it happens, and they chase away the cat. That doesn’t change the fact that the yarn is still there, and it will always be there.”
Walker laughed. “Let me get this straight. You’re saying the issue already lives within the Gordons. You’re just going to locate it, and you’re going to make it explode.”
Dutton nodded.
“You’re the cat,” Hart offered.
Dutton smiled. “No. I’m a fucking lion.”
Me
Troy and Jenner, we’ve decided as a family to move forward and sue the shit out of the Gordons.
Troy
You’re making the right decision. We’ll get the paperwork started.
Beck
Do everything in your fucking power to make them pay.
Hart
And I mean everything.
Walker
If you destroy their reputation in the process, we wouldn’t be upset by that.
Eden
We appreciate you guys. We know you’ll do everything you can.
Jenner
You have our word.
THIRTY-EIGHT
SOPHIE
“I’m finding it extremely difficult to control myself whenever I’m around you in public.” Colson’s stare was rabid as he gazed at me from the other side of the table. “Fuck me, I want to get you naked.”
I smiled at his admission, considering the last time we had been together, thousands of feet in the air, he hadn’t controlled himself at all. Neither of us had.
“If this wasn’t your restaurant, I would say the next time the server comes in, you need to let him know we won’t need any more assistance and find a way to lock us in this private room.” I crossed my legs; the ache that beat inside me was almost unbearable. “But given the amount of attention we’re probably going to receive tonight, I’d say that’s not the best idea.”
His expression told me he wasn’t afraid to shove a chair under the handle of the door, swipe his arm across the table,and throw me on top of it. “We’ll just have to wait until we get in the car.”
I licked my lips. “You mean you’re going to fuck me in front of Paul?”
