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moment later. The phone call lasted an hour. “Sounds like we have an agreement, Tom. Martin will send the paperwork. I’m sure I don’t need to tell you that if any word of this leaks, the deal is off.” Eamon nodded as if in answer to a question. “Yep. Good doing business with you Tom. Bye.”
    Martin came back into the office. “How much is this going to cost?”
    “An extra seven hundred fifty thousand to start and he gets a license at a very nominal fee for the life of the engine. Ultimately, a million and a half, maybe two million.”
    “ Crap! So? Do you think we have a mole in the company? How did Rainwhite tip to this?”
    Eamon shook his head. “ I was the leak. I underestimated Miss Adams, but I won’t again. In fact, I’m going to call and ask her out.”
    “Ask her out?”
    “Yeah…because if I don’t, she’ll know that I know. I have to keep her thinking that I’m oblivious to what she’s done.”
    “What happened? How did you give it away?” Martin asked.
    “I played Wickerworld with her. We talked about how it was put together what was good about it, what wasn’t. I forgot who she was who she worked for and all those damned books I’ve seen her read over the last few months.” Eamon shook his head. He was pissed, but he had to admire the fact that she’d figured it out.
    “Well that was an expensive mistake.”
    Eamon said nothing, but the fact that Sarah had cost him so much money and might cost him more if he couldn’t garner enough stock and proxies to take over Rainwhite really stung. It had been a long time since he’d let his guard down that way. It was all that sweetness and light and the choir girl clothes. He’d underestimated her, and he wouldn’t make that mistake again.
    He waved Martin out of the office and reached over to make the phone call. He wasn’t particularly surprised when Sarah didn’t pick up. He sent her a text. When she wrote back that she was unavailable, he knew that she knew. I’ll see you Friday, Sarah , he thought.
    The Takeover
    Thursday afternoon, the game engine buyer backed out at the last minute. Because of the timing, Jim and Sarah knew that he’d been bought off by Gryphon, and it was too late to find another buyer before the stockholder’s meeting. “Shit!” was all Jim said before he went to give Aaron the bad news.
    Eamon walked into the annual stockholders’ meeting on Friday with more than enough stock and proxies to acquire of Rainwhite games. He saw Sarah there with her boss which gave him a great deal of satisfaction. He let Martin have the fun of the actual execution; he sat back and watched the show. The slaughter was brief and bloody. The current board was voted out and a new board elected. The measure to sell Rainwhite Games to Gryphon World, Inc., passed by a comfortable margin and by the end of the meeting, Rainwhite Games was, for all intents and purposes, dead.
    Sarah was taking notes on the meeting. She kept her expression neutral but inside her stomach clenched with anxiety as the votes were tallied and it became obvious that they were lost.
    When the meeting was adjourned, Eamon walked over to where Jim and Sarah were seated. “Send an email, tweet, whatever you use out to all Rainwhite employees telling them that there will be an all-company meeting Monday morning at 9:30 a.m. at Gryphon World, Inc.’s main office.” He looked at Sarah. “I’m sure you have the address.” He turned back to Jim before Sarah could say anything. “Make someone responsible for getting a response from every employee. And send a separate email out to your team leads that we will meet at 2:00 p.m. in the same room.”
    “As you wish,” Jim said.
    Eamon turned once more to Sarah. “By the way, I’m the one who killed your game engine deal.  Nice try, but it didn’t work.” Sarah’s lips tightened. She simply glared at him. Eamon let her glower for a moment and then said, “You have something to say about that, Miss