Free Rules of Her Sins (Their Sins #1) by A. Gorman Page A

see me because my father wants me to work out a new security plan for the company he is buying. I really don’t want to help him and I am seriously about to tell him he can do it himself. I think I’ll let him stew over it a bit. I guess I should learn to work well with Aedan in case I do get my father’s position.
    I need to check my school email. Luckily, this semester I only had to take a few filler courses and they are online. Many of my courses from IU transferred to UC. In two and half weeks, I will be finished with my bachelors and then I can start working my way toward the top.
    I had nothing in my school email that needs my attention, so I check my work email. I see an email from someone I don’t know, so I click on it. A picture flashes up of me in a very compromising position, almost like a Snapchat picture . I try to get it back, but it won’t come up. I call IT and ask them to trace it. They log into my computer then tell me it’s gone from the server. They try to trace the email, but they come up with a dead end.
    I thank them and hang up. Who in the hell besides Chet would have pictures of me looking like that, and why would they try messing with me now? With everything going on, it’s not as if I don’t have enough on my plate. My cell starts to ring and I look at it. The number shows up as unknown. I let it go to voicemail.
    My office phone starts ringing.
    “McCoy Investments…”
    “Jesse, can you please come here now ? I really need you to help with this project. Your father was very adamant about you learning this detail in security when we acquire new companies,” a very irritated Aedan states on the other end of the line.
    “Yes, I was getting ready to come up there after I checked my work email. I had an issue, so it took a little longer than I thought it would. I’ll be there in five minutes,” I say. I hang up before he has a chance to reply.
    I will have to see if I can contact my father’s private investigator and see if I can have that email checked for more detail. I want to know who exactly has pictures of me that could destroy everything that I have rebuilt since I left Indiana. I will not run away this time. I will fight to make sure I come out on top.
    I sigh and begrudgingly head down the hallway to Aedan’s office. I hope this doesn’t take long. I think I am going to see if Laney can head out early today. I am ready to get out of here for the day. I don’t care that it’s only one thirty.
     
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    Aedan
     
    IT called me to inform me that someone sent a picture with a tracking virus to Jesse’s email. The picture wasn’t too pretty. I made IT destroy it after they took it off the server, where she couldn’t see it again. No one needs to relive what was happening in that picture. I swear if I find out Chet emailed this picture to her, I’ll have his balls on a platter. Why would he start messing with her after two years? I’m wondering if he is out of money. I’m not going to like telling McCoy about this email.
    I start to call McCoy, but Jesse arrives in my office to help me with the security details we put together for each company that comes into McCoy Investments. McCoy wants Jesse to know how every single team works together to make the company as successful as it is. When I look up, I see Jesse’s face and she looks dejected.
    “Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to learn this part of the company. I’m sure you won’t have to do it, but it would be beneficial for you to know all the pieces of the acquisition package,” I say as I give her the biggest smile I can.
    “You’re welcome,” she says quietly.
    “Um…is there something bothering you? Are you okay?” I ask. I’m wondering if all of this is because of that email.
    “I’m fine. Just stress from work and graduating, I guess.” She sighs and then continues.
    “Want a drink? I have whiskey, bourbon, or vodka.”
    She gives me a look like I’m off my rocker. “Um, thank