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She saw Leandro’s nostrils flare suddenly, and she realized that he knew.
The look on Bobby Granger’s face had Anna turning sharply towards Leandro and she almost stomped her foot in fury when she saw the lust darkening his gaze. She did not understand it. She just did not understand how the Greek billionaire could want someone like Bobby Granger when he could have someone like her.
“Oh dear.”
Anna’s words shook Bobby out of the sexual trance Leandro had easily trapped her into, and she hastily looked away, color flooding her cheeks.Really, Bobby, really? He played you for a fool and you still want to have sex with him?
“I really thought this was going to be okay, but I see that the two of you still have unfinished business.” Anna reached out with her free hand to pat Bobby’s arm in fake sympathy. “It’s totally fine, darling. I’ve known so many women who never got over their infatuation with Leandro here. You’re not alone, wanting the unreachable.”
Even Leandro was caught unaware by the sheer malice of Anna’s words and he snapped, “You don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Anna tightened her hold on Leandro’s arm, a silent warning of how far she was willing to go if he even thought of abandoning her now. The knowledge that he had usedherto be close to someone as unattractive as Bobby Granger was a bitter pill to swallow.
“Of course I know what I’m talking about,” she countered with a shrill laugh. “The whole world knows it, Leandro. Every tabloid, every gossip website – everyone was talking about your very public falling out.” Anna was determined to exact her revenge on the younger girl, knowing that by doing so she would also cause greater hurt to the Greek billionaire standing so stiffly next to her. A fake thoughtful expression crossed her face. “I think, mmm, I think your exact words at that time was howyou never loved her in the first place?”
The words slashed at Bobby.
Suddenly it hit her, the way this very scenario was so alike that night Leandro had broken her heart. Then, they had been standing this close, looking at each other this way, and were surrounded by people just like now.
Leandro’s words played inside her mind over and over, ripping open wounds that she thought time had been able to heal.
Anna glanced innocently at Bobby in confirmation. “Did I recall that correctly, darling?”
Bobby said thinly, “Yes. Those were the words.”
The whitened look on Bobby’s face told Leandro that she was remembering the past, and the realization sickened him. An eternity could pass, but Leandro knew there wouldn’t really be a day that he could ever forgive himself for how much he had hurt her that time. “Shut up, Anna.”
Anna’s lips tightened at the words. “I don’t see why I should shut up, Leandro. I’m just having a normal conversation with Bobby here.” She glanced back at Bobby with a saccharine smile. “You’re over him now, right?”
Bobby just nodded. She was willing to play along with everything Anna said just to be done with this.
Anna pretended to be confused. “Then...why are you having a hard time looking at him now?”
The crowd around them had fallen silent.
From the corner of her eye, Bobby saw F stirring and knew that even though F hated confrontations like this, he had obviously had enough and was going to interfere.
Not wanting F to be involved in her problems – which her own stupidity had caused – Bobby shook her head at her boss. F frowned in response. Knowing that F understood her warning, Bobby slowly turned her gaze back to Leandro.
This time, it wasn’t his beauty or masculinity that struck her.
No, this time, what made her want to die, cry, and laugh was the realization that she hated him. She hated him so much, and she knew that the reason for her hatred would ensure that she kept hating him forever.
Leandro Christopoulos had once been everything to her. He had been herentireworld...while she had been his pawn.
“Bobby—-” Leandro took a step closer, and Bobby reacted instinctively.
Her hand connected with his face in a resounding slap that had his head whipping to the side.
Everyone around them gasped.
Bobby couldn’t believe what she had done. Her mouth opened and closed several times, her mind a total blank. Had she really slapped him? What did she do now? Apologize? Pretend she had amnesia? Whoop for joy because she had always wanted to do that?
Anna’s voice once again cut through her disjointed thoughts.
“And there I thought you were completely over Leandro.” Anna laughed softly. “Poor Bobby. You’re still a child, after all.” Her voice became louder, her tone sharper as she continued, “I’m going to do you a favor and tell you the truth that no one had the guts to tell you.”
Leandro finally wrenched his arm away from the other woman. “Shut up, Anna.”
