Mostly recovered, he walked to her bed and retrieved his shirt, starting to put it back on. He noticed the look at her clothes and then the glance in his direction. He sighed, "I don't mind if you wear something conservative, but must it be downright unattractive?" He adjusted the cuffs of his shirt and started to walk into her bathroom before she could answer, leaving his words hanging more as a statement than a question. He washed his face in the sink and used one of the nearby hand towels to dry his cheeks.
He called to her from the bathroom, "Elsa, make sure you pack whatever toiletries and makeup you need for a couple of days, please, and grab a few changes of clothes." He took a few moments to think to himself. He could keep her at his house for a while, but eventually he would have things to do and need to be able to leave her on her own. He felt that most likely, if he did that now, he'd come home, she'd be gone, this place would be cleaned out, and there would be a for sale sign out front. He doubted that she'd leave anyone a forwarding address either. No, he couldn't trust her to stay with him voluntarily. He needed to remove either her means or her will to run. Her purse was still at his home, which made holding onto her credit cards easy enough. He had most of her personal information at the office, so if she ran, she'd need to use very liquid assets, cash really, to avoid being easily tracked. He didn't need to clean her out, but he needed to get control of enough of her cash that she couldn't pull enough together in one afternoon to simply zip away.
He pulled out his cell phone and closed the bathroom door. He called the HR department and told them that he needed info on his secretary. He asked if she had set up direct deposit and was delighted to find that she had. They gave him the account numbers and the bank. It wasn't one of his, but he did know the manager personally. He had to make two more calls to get the cell number he was looking for then he punched it into his cell. He talked low, "Jack, hey, yeah, how have you been? This is Nick. Hey, I need a little favor." He explained that he was worried about one of his employees stealing. He asked him if he could quietly monitor the accounts, nothing too major, just put something on the account that alerted the manager when there was a major withdrawal. The manager agreed and said he'd call Nick if he spotted anything.