Andy Delgado

Riley Gray is the daughter of a corrupt cop who taught her all sorts of tricks to turn her into an expert thief. One day, Riley discovers that her father put them in a mess she can only get out of by stealing from the richest man in town: Theodore Maddox. To save her sister, Riley agrees, but eventually gets discovered by the attractive young man to whom she desperately tells the truth. Curiously, he doesn't seem interested in putting her in jail, but offers Riley a deal instead: if she steals an important jewel for him, Theo will pay her father's debt. But why does Theo want that jewel, and what will Riley have to do to get it?

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"Your wounds are different," he says in a serious voice. "I can heal them."
"What makes you think I can't heal yours?"
"I am not a battle you wish to fight," he clarifies.
"You're rushing to pick battles for me," I argue. "I'm the one who decides what to fight."

A Thief for the CEO is created by Andy Delgado, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.

A Thief for the CEO

I stare at my cell phone. The screen is blank. No new messages, no calls.


It's been two days since we returned to New York from L.A.. Since then, I haven't heard from Cameron. I've called him but he never answers and doesn't read my messages.


Anxiety is eating me up inside. I keep remembering the woman I saw in that room, the Baroness. Her look full of hate is still engraved in my brain and no matter how hard I try, I can't get her out of my mind.


I also can't get over the fact that I was inside a room I wasn't supposed to be in. Cameron surely overlooked that fact at the time of our farewell because of the tension with his grandmother, but it's something I have to explain to him somehow, I just don't know how yet.


Still, it would be better to think about it if I actually knew something about him. If we could talk, I'd make up any plausible excuse.


“Come on, relax. You have to stay calm.”


Chapter 31: Distraction