The next move that could benefit Rose and her company was to decline Xander’s offer for cooperation. Autostock XM was the leading company in the market and any other company would have sacrificed so much to work with them. However, Xander was investigating her thoroughly and it would not take long for him to piece everything together if she gave his company access to her company records via the cooperation. Certainly, she’d have access to Autostock XM’s records, too, and she might find out the truth about her grandmother, but it was too much of a risk. She thought long and hard about the refusal all through breakfast that was served to her in a tearoom until Mason entered the room and interrupted her pondering. “How did you find your first night here?” He asked kindly and she had to for

