Neil strode in past the blonde receptionist right in the middle of Christian's meeting. At 29 years old, he was a brilliant business man and believed that working with Christian would catapult him to greatness. It was ironic that he had been in a position to cement his relationship to the mogul only a short two years earlier and hadn't known it. A smirk briefly appeared on his face and disappeared as his mentor glanced at him.

For the past five years Neil had been working at Grey Enterprises, he had strived not only for perfection, but unparalleled brilliance and the ability to make himself indispensable to the company. He had risen among the corporate ladder quite fast, and now understood why exactly his relationship with Grace Marquand had come to an end. Her dirty little secret –the one she had had refused to let go of—was that she was the daughter of the man he hoped to someday replace as CEO of Grey Enterprises.

Going to see her tonight hadn't been about threatening her as he had made it seem. He was just returning the favor and the cruelty that she had shown him after she had left him. Neil's chest tightened and he started to become angry all over again. She had left him, he knew now, because she and her equally bitchy sister had been using him the whole time to get what they wanted; an inside account of the company's goings on. How disappointed she must have been to find out that she had wasted a year on him without achieving her goal.

"Taylor and Ros were just filling us in on what they know about Grace," Christian said. "Where have you been?"

"I was having a meeting," Neil said, "with Grace."

"How did you arrange that," Ros asked. "Do you know her?" Everyone in the room turned to look at him.

"As a matter of fact, I do. We both attended university together and met on campus while we were working on our masters' degree. I realize now that's probably why we met. It was during my internship here and I think both she and Grey must have targeted me to try and get inside information."

"And did they," Christian said as he stepped toward his protégé.

"Not a damn thing," the young man drawled. "She ended things after a year of not getting anything out of me, and the two of them must have tried to infiltrate your company some other way."

Christian was having a hard time accepting the fact that he had daughters, but at the realization that the only person he had ever trusted to one day run his company had been involved with one of his daughters and the real heir to Grey Enterprises, he thought he was going to have that well deserved heart attack.

"We need to keep looking for some kind of leak," Taylor suggested. "Just because we haven't found anything doesn't mean we will. We need to look closer. They were obviously really clever about not being tied to any of the employees we give background checks to. Which only leaves—"

"It only leaves family members," Christian thought. "No one in my family would do something like this, though. No," he said sternly, interrupting Ros before she could say anything. "We still need to go over every project Neill had access to during the time frame for his relationship with Grace, if only to disprove any leaks coming from you."

"Is there anything particular you can tell us about either of the girls that might help us in our investigation," Taylor asked him.

"You want me to profile them for you," he bit off. "Grey is the business mastermind, cold and calculating but the girl can turn on the doe eyes whenever she needs to which comes in handy when working with other investors and negotiations. Grace is the science, but she's not the typical science geek. She's polished and feminine and knows how to make people feel at ease when she's digging through their most personal details of their lives.

"Together, they are cold, cruel and have only their own agenda to account for. Whatever happened between you and their mother," he turned to Christian, "is the motivation behind their attacks. They'll stop at nothing to get what they want. What you need is leverage, and I have it."