Seduction: Book 4 (Strong Young Women Series) by Joyce Jordan Page B

his presents.
    “Anytime you want to start speaking. Time’s running out,” he said with a huge smile. Turnaround was fair wasn’t it? “I may be senile by then and it will just take you longer to teach me what I need to know.”
    “I thought you were joking,” Ana said to him. She came to sit beside him. “Nate,” she took his hand. “Are you aware of what you’re asking us to do?”
    Nate squeezed her hand. “Afraid Ana?”
    “Heck, no!” Ana said standing and walking away. “Tom, how long do you think it will take us to put all this together?”
    “A couple of hours?”
    “Kids, just to show you I’m not an ogre,” he said pointing a finger at his chest. “I’m actually a very nice man indeed.” He sent a smile their way. “So, I’ll add an extra hour to that. Three hours ought to do it. If not, I can send my most trusted technicians to help sort out the mess.” He smirked at them as he once again looked at the ‘organized chaos’.
    “Nate you forget I do computers for a living.”
    “Ana, let’s face it. You are good at software. The hardware, maybe when taking one machine out the box at a time. Then reading the manual on how to assemble the parts. Now with,” he said and started counting, “jeez, I lost count at ten cables. Must be the senility catching up faster than I thought.”
    “You’re on, old man.”
    The muffled laughter started once again. Nate looked at Tom and shrugged. “You can start anytime you want, kids.”
    “Anytime, you want to leave,” Ana said to him. “The door is right behind you.”
    “Oh, no. No, no, no,” he said shaking his head. “I’m just going to sit here and enjoy the show. Watching the two of you scramble around like rats, mice, whichever you prefer, will be better than any afternoon meeting I could ever attend.” He pulled his phone out. He smiled sheepishly, “I actually forgot I had something scheduled for this afternoon. Hi, Maria. Please cancel the rest of my appointments for today and reschedule for tomorrow.”
    He shut his phone. “Now where were we?”
    “Nate. You being here will just distract us, which would be unfair for us. You’ve seen what the rooms look like, so it’s not like we can cheat if you leave. All you need to do is be back in two hours and fifty minutes,” she said checking the time.
    “I see nothing wrong with that,” he agreed. Nate stood and walked towards the door. “I’ll just go and change. Maybe make a ‘school’ schedule for the times we’ll be meeting.” He reached the door. “Be good kids.” Then he walked out. “Oh,” he said popping his head back in. “Just the two of you. The bodyguards just sit and watch.” He smirked. “After all, I wouldn’t want them to slow you down. It would be unfair to you.” Then he was out again.
    “You up for this Tom?” Ana asked him.
    “Hell yeah! Going to a conference. I don’t care what it is about, but just being around other computer geeks. That’s a dream come true Ana. Where do I start?”
    Ana laughed. “We haven’t had lunch yet. So how about we do this then go out to lunch and be back before Nate gets back?”
    At his nod, Ana told him to start with her office. She pointed to the desktop she wanted in her office. The rest they were putting in the bigger room that she had named the ‘war room’. With so much space, she was going to add more machines. More toys. She knew the government always had new toys to test, and she was game. After her conference, she hoped to bring a couple of them.

 
    Seven
     
    Nate knocked and opened the door before anyone could answer. The huge smile on h is face died an instant death. What the…? It wasn’t possible. They didn’t even look up. They were both pretending to be reading some computer journals. He laughed because Ana’s was upside down. She had clearly grabbed it at his knock. How original.
    She yawned. “Oh, hi Nate. I was almost falling asleep. These technical magazines can be so boring,”