“Oh?” Ajay leaned down until their noses almost touched. “Can you swear to me that your husband didn’t get hold of any information about my company while you were helping us out?”

He saw a flicker in her eyes and knew it was guilt. He suppressed the urge to swear again. “What does he know?”

“Nothing that isn’t already public,” she responded. “I took care of it.”

“You took care of it?” Ajay roared. His voice echoed down the empty corridor. “Do you have any idea what this company means to me, means to my father? He started Bharat with nothing but a dream and determination. We almost lost everything to WTA because we had a mole in our company. Then you almost screwed us again, and all you can say is that you took care of it?”

“You don’t have any idea who the hell you’re talking to,” she shot back. “Your father isn’t the only one who stands on a mountain built of dreams. That’s why I put my own money, my own people into helping your company when you were the fools who got yourselves into the mess in the first place. Hell, your chief of security was so inept that it took my team a day to produce what he couldn’t in months. You think I’d help anybody, Ajay? No, dammit. I made sure Bharat wasn’t affected by my mistake and I made up for it tenfold. I take care of my own, and then I gave you more than you deserve.”

They were both breathing heavily. The fire burning in her eyes matched his temper, and no matter how hard he tried, the longer he looked at her, the more he seethed. He’d let Rajneet Kaur Hothi take advantage of him for the last time.

“And to think, despite our short conversation, I thought you actually were interested in playing with me, not playing me.”

Ajay tucked a soft, thick curl behind her ear, his fingers lingering at the curve of her chin for a moment, before he stepped away and pulled his cell out to call his chief of security

“Sri,” he said when the man answered the phone. He locked eyes with Rajneet.

“What can I do for you, boss?”

“Terminate all RKH Collective contractors immediately. We have a breach.”

“Sir?” Sri’s voice held a note of surprise. “Is there something wrong?”

Ajay felt a niggling of irritation. His head of security was always available, and did what he asked, but there had been a lot of mistakes in the last few months that should’ve been caught. This was one of them.

“It appears as if the owner of the company is married to WTA’s shareholder representative.” Raj glared at him but didn’t try to stop his conversation.

“I’ll get on it right away. That was an oversight on our part, sir.”