My CEO 277

277 What's really Going On? (Winona)

The hum of the helicopter blades above is relentless. I look out the window at the views beneath me, but I can't enjoy any of it. My mind spins, from everything Gus said. Jayden might be the real target.

The first stop is coming up soon. I have to change helicopters, according to the pilot, something Gus arranged. But the stops, the precautions, only makes me more anxious.

What's really going on here?

My mind drifts back to what Gus told me. Jayden might be the real target. Cass is just bait. I'm bait. Maybe part of a bigger plan to lure Jayden.

But why?

I try to make sense of it, piecing together the scattered puzzle Gus has laid out in front of me. If Cass was taken to lure me and then me to lure Jayden, then her being in Cancun at all can't be a coincidence.

And if Jayden is their real target, why go through so much trouble to get him to South America? Just get him to go there and grab him. Grab him from anywhere

It doesn't make sense. Maybe Cass is really just a victim of an opportunistic kidnapping, and they are only after money.

I mean, if Cass was taken to Cancun for the sole purpose of kidnapping her, that means Gabriel had to know something, surely. And where is Gabriel?

Why wasn't he with Cass when they took her? Or was he with Cass and the reason she is now captive.

Is he captive too?

of being corrupt. There are

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been off since I met him. There was always something about him that felt... wrong.

it

to his charm, his smooth-talking persona, but now

Gus is right, did Gabriel know

might be part of this scheme. Maybe

in Cancun at the same time, but

going all over

again, I'm

descend toward the landing pad for the first switch. I grip the armrest tighter, trying to steady

fifteen minutes here before the

in all of it? And more importantly, what does this mean for Cass? Was she just collateral damage, or is there something else at play? +25

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using his charm to climb higher, but now I wonder if

darker.

A few men in suits stand nearby, talking quietly into their earpieces, ready to escort me to the next ride. Everything is so damn precise, so calculated. It feels like I'm in some kind of

I just exist and be

seat. The thought that Jayden might be the real target eats at me. Why? What do

I've trusted Gus so far, but now... now I'm not so sure. The reach he has, the security detail, the resources at his disposal, phone tapping? The

push the growing suspicion out of my mind. But it's no use. If Gus can have my phone tapped

mean, I know he's done so much to help me when all the crap in Santa

in-what if Gus isn't the good guy here? What if he's at the center of all this? The kidnappers are after Jayden, his heir, but what

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