Free His Absolute Insistence: A Scandalous Billionaire Love Story (Jessika, #2) by Cerys du Lys Page B

else."
    Asher nodded, remaining silent.
    "I can't tell you who the source is because I don't know.  The email was anonymous and now any messages sent to the email address are being marked as unsendable.  I don't know anything.  I tried to get someone I trust to see if they could figure out more, but we've got nothing.  So that's all I can give you.  I'm going to do this report on you and your wife, because it's my job.  I don't want to have to do a report on the downfall of Landseer Enterprises, too.  If you can't figure something out, I might have to, though.  That's all I wanted to say."
    She paused before opening the door to the taxi.  "Thank you for your time, Mr. Landseer."
    Asher nodded, brow furrowed.  Hanna closed the door behind her.  A moment later the taxi driver returned and hopped into the front seat.  Hanna and her cameraman walked away, maybe to do a live report on the situation at the hospital or maybe to do something else.  Asher had no idea.
    "Landseer Tower," he said.
    The driver nodded and stepped on the gas.
    ***
    I asked Jeremy to go to the grocery store for me, partly because I did want him to pick some things up there, but also because I wanted to use my computer without prying eyes.  It wasn't that I didn't trust him, but some things were best done alone, and this was likely one of them.  Also, as much as I would have preferred it, the incident earlier that day proved I couldn't very well go grocery shopping at the moment.
    Jeremy left with my grocery list.  I waited in the kitchen of my old apartment, seeing if he'd come back at the last minute because he forgot something or if he was truly gone.  Five minutes passed, then a couple more, and everything seemed safe enough at that point.  I hurried to my bedroom and my computer desk, then sat in the old-style office chair and powered on my PC.  The tower hummed and whirred, fans forced into labor after nearly a year's worth of downtime.  I hoped that didn't mean anything; I hoped the computer still worked fine.
    It booted up slower than I remembered, but maybe that was just because I'd grown accustomed to speed.  Asher bought me the best of a lot of things, and my laptop was one of those.  We had a shared desktop computer in our bedroom in his mansion, too, but I didn't like to use it much unless we used it together.
    The little Windows start up screen appeared, then vanished soon after.  A password box replaced it and I typed in my password without thinking.  It'd been so long since I used this computer, but old reflexes kicked in fast.  My desktop revealed itself, start up programs starting up, and after a couple of minutes everything was in working order.  Hopefully.
    I clicked to open an internet browser, then went to search on Google.  I didn't really know what to look for, so I started with the obvious.
    "Jessika and Asher Landseer sex tape"
    An assortment of results popped up and I browsed through them.  Mostly news outlets from what I could see, though I hadn't heard of half of them.  I clicked to go to one of them and saw some scandalous headline with a few censored pictures of what most definitely looked like me and Asher.  Granted, from the vantage point of the camera, only parts of Asher's lower body showed through, but my own body was mostly on open display.
    I scanned through the article quickly, but it didn't say much.  Just a few mentions of purported sexual photos involving us, and notes about supposed sex tape video clips.
    Well, yes, I wanted to see the clips.  Obviously news outlets wouldn't be showing those, though.  Did they even have them online yet?  I kind of hoped not, but a part of me was morbidly curious.  What exactly would I do if they were?  Asher mentioned we could deny it... or not.  My immediate first reaction was to deny it, but if they were already on the internet, what use would that be?  People would see them, regardless.
    My father and mother might have seen this, I thought to