Three
o’clock rolled around, and a knock sounded on Matthew’s door. He’d been staring
at his phone for the last ten minutes trying to come up with an excuse to
cancel his meeting with Cali Stanton today. The problem was there wasn’t a
valid reason.
The knock
came again, but louder this time. It could only be one person, and he knew if
he didn’t respond this time, Jason would just come in anyway. “Come in,”
Matthew said without enthusiasm.
Seconds
later Jason was through the door and standing in front of him, hands on his
hips.
Matthew
stared up at his brother. “What?”
“What?”
Jason said, clearly unable to believe what he was both seeing and hearing.
“What? Matthew you’re supposed to be upstairs right now for your weekly
briefing. You’re still here. Why?”
Matthew’s
mind was scrambling for an answer, but he didn’t come up with one fast enough
to suit Jason.
“What is
going on? You haven’t been yourself for days, and now you’re missing meetings?
This isn’t like you.”
He didn’t
need Jason to tell him he wasn’t himself---he knew that already. “I’ve just had
a lot of things on my mind lately.” Grabbing on to the first thing he could
think of besides seeing Cali again, he said, “I talked to Martinez. The tape
was tampered with.”
It took
Jason only a second to fully grasp that information. “Who?”
Matthew
nervously tapped his fingers on his desktop as he glanced back to his computer
screen. “I don’t know, but we have to figure it out. Until we do, we can’t
trust anyone.”
Jason
nodded. “What do you need me to do?”
This was
a strategic move, and one that Jason would always defer to his younger
brother. “I need to think.” After another minute, Matthew came up with an idea,
not one to solve the mystery of the security tape, but one to solve his more
immediate problem. He looked up at his brother. “Do you think you could cover
the meeting for me today? I’d like to pick up that tape this afternoon and take
a look at it myself.”
“Yeah.
Sure,” Jason said. “I’ll
take care of it.”
As Jason
left the room, Matthew took one last look at the computer screen and the
flashing message reminding him about the meeting he’d just handed off to Jason.
Matthew wouldn’t see her today. He’d stick with his plan. He could do this.
Space. That’s what he needed—just a little time and space—then all would be
normal again.
Grabbing
his jacket, he was out the door.
Sherri spent most of her childhood detesting English class. It was one of her least favorite subjects because she never seemed to fit into the standard mold. She wasn't good at spelling, or following grammar rules, and outlines made her head spin. For that reason, Sherri never imagined becoming an author.At the age of thirty, all of that changed. After getting frustrated with the direction a television show was taking two of its characters, Sherri decided to try her hand at writing an alternate ending, and give the characters their happily ever after. By the time the story finished, it was one of the top ten read stories on the site, and her readers were encouraging her to write more.
Six years later, Sherri is the author of six full-length novels, and one short story. Writing has become a creative outlet for Sherri that allows her to explore a wide range of emotions, while having fun taking her characters through all the twists and turns she can create. She is most well known for her Finding Anna Series about a young woman rescued from being a sex slave by a wealthy Dominant. The third book in that series, Truth, released July 25, 2013.
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