Corporate Games Ava learned quickly that Lucian’s empire ran on fear, caffeine and flawless execution and she was determined to give him the last one in spades. By the end of her second week, the executive floor had started to notice her. Emails went out faster than ever, contracts were proofed before Lucian even asked, and she’d caught two decimal-point errors in a fifty-million-dollar deal memos that would have cost the company a fortune. Whispers followed her down the hallway. She’s terrifyingly good. Where did he find her? Think she’s sleeping with him? She pretended not to hear that last one. Lucian heard everything, of course. And he hated it. So he began the sabotage small, vicious, invisible to anyone else. A critical file accidentally deleted from the shared drive five

