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Behind her, I spot Cash looking devastatingly handsome in a black suit with his hair just a little unkempt, reminding me of how he looked on Saturday night. His eyes meet mine, and I see the struggle behind them. He’s barely holding back. I nod to Rachel to let him in. “Well, Tessa, doesn’t look like I’ll be calling him,” I whisper into the phone.
“Why?”
“Because he’s here.”
Cash walks toward me, and the muscles in my back tense. This is going to take a tremendous amount of restraint. On the other end of the phone, Tessa screeches.
“I gotta go,” I tell her, hanging up the phone.
“You look beautiful, Gracie,” Cash says as he remains standing. I think he’s trying to decide whether he should kiss me or if he should just sit.
As my stomach somersaults, I can’t really decide what I’d prefer him to do. The air crackles between us as his eyes roam down my body, but the article on my screen distracts me, and I curse under my breath, “Fuck.”
He smirks and sits down. “That’s some welcome, Angel.”
I roll my eyes as I laugh at him. “Well, I mean,” I stumble, “yes, I, you do…Oh, God, I’m terrible at this.”
His eyes light up. “And what is this?”
I scrunch my nose trying to avoid smiling. “Stop!”
He shrugs as if he’s not doing anything at all. As if he doesn’t know that just having him this close sets my skin on fire. “I missed you.”
I find myself giving him a stupid smile, like a teenage girl talking to the quarterback. “Did you play football, Cash?”
A glorious loud laugh escapes his lips, sending his Adam’s apple bobbing, and he covers his mouth as he starts to cough. “Wow, Grace, you go straight for it, huh?”
I squirm from his gaze.
Cash gives me one of his panty-melting smirks. “Yeah, I was quarterback of my high school team. We won the state championship.”
I roll my eyes. “Of course you did.”
“Always pegging me.”
“It’s my job.”
Our eyes lock.
“About that,” I say, as he interrupts me.
“I saw the article.”
I bite the inside of my lip. “It’s already getting messy, and they don’t even have proof.”
Cash nods. “They did but I bought it.”
I snap to attention. “Bought what?”
Cash reaches into his jacket pocket, pulls out photographs, and pushes them toward me. They’re the ones that Tessa’s “friend” gave her. So much for keeping them secret. “Where did you get these?” I ask as I flip through each one.
God, they’re hot. My legs clench, and I find myself leaning against my chair. My panties will be soaked by the time he leaves.
“My sister showed them to me a few weeks ago. I guess someone you know decided to do you a solid and not sell them. But after this article came out this morning, I had my lawyer reach out and pay him off. These won’t see the light of day.”
An exhale a mile long leaves my lips. “Thank you, I was going to do the same thing.”
He glares. “Without talking to me?”
