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“Hi, Lolly.” My voice was cool but relaxed.
Selena’s eyes still lifted to mine. She clearly remembered the name.
“Aiden!” Lolly flashed me a bright white smile. She didn’t seem to even see Selena, despite how close Selena and I were standing. “How have you been?”
“I’m well. You?” I encouraged more small talk with the valet, but Lolly didn’t seem to notice.
She’d been one of my best friends growing up. The daughter of one of my father’s closest friends, we’d known the same world of luxury and brutality. We’d gone to the same stupidly expensive prep school where kids snorted cocaine in the bathroom between English and Trig. Lolly had cheered for me at football games and held my hand at my mother’s funeral.
And now I could barely fucking stand the sight of her.
“So, London was lovely, but I just had to come back home,” she was saying. I’d lost track of the conversation, thinking about our past and what she’d done to ruin it.
“It’s good you’re back,” I said. “This is my girlfriend, Selena.”
Selena leaned into me, her arm sliding around my waist. It was the first time she’d pressed herself close to me voluntarily, her breast pressing against my side, and the warm, softness of her body made some of my tension melt away. She smiled at Lolly. “Pleasure to meet you.”
“You as well,” Lolly said, but she barely glanced at Selena. “I’ve missed you, Aiden. I’ve missed our friendship.”
“Mm.” I had nothing to say about ourfriendship.
I’d like to get out of this conversation.
Actually, I’d kind of like to dumpherin the river. That would definitely end the conversation. “Well, we have to be going.”
“It’s been so nice meeting you,” Selena said to Lolly. Then she beamed up at me, looking at me as if she adored me. It turned out the girl could act. “But Aiden and I have an appointment on the tenth floor.”
“Ah,” Lolly said, still speaking to me. “So you found a girl who has your same interests?”
Selena looked up at me through her lashes, and all my tension fled away as she purred, “My only interest is Aiden.”
She was so over the top it made me want to laugh, and it made it hard to even care about Lolly’s betrayal.
“Excuse me,” I said to Lolly as the elevator doors opened.
I escorted Selena inside. Lolly could have taken the same elevator, and she took a step toward us, but Selena was already pressing herself against me, looking as if she were hanging on my every word, my every breath. “Sir…” she murmured, leaning into my ear, and Lolly gave us a little wave goodbye as she stepped back from the elevator.
“Thank you,” I told Selena as we rode up.
She gave me that wide-eyed, innocent look that didn’t do much to hide the clever brain purring along like a race car behind the pretty face.
CHAPTER11
Aiden
I ledSelena into my office, which was beautifully lit by sunlight through the floor-to-ceiling windows and French doors during the day. Right now, the rooftop pool lapped just outside the windows, shimmering under the moonlight. The other set of doors to access the pool led out from the club. No one else was up here at the moment, and if Selena decided she wanted to swim, no one else would be.
She joined me at the window, looking out at the lush green plants that surrounded the pool. For a second, she looked as if she noticed how beautiful it all was. Then she asked, “Can I use your computer?”
“Of course.” I led her to the desk and keyed in my credentials. The screen lit as the computer woke. Then I pulled up a chair to sit beside her.
She eyed me. “Are you going to sit there the entire time?”
“I might enjoy watching you work.”
She rolled her eyes, but it was true. Selena’s quick competence drew me to her.
We sat for the next hour and what I would have considered companionable silence. She typed quickly, with occasional pauses with a faraway look in her eyes as if she was thinking, so I simply sat and watched her and made sure she didn't make any treacherous plans. Although I wasn't entirely sure I could keep up with her, I was good with technology but I was certainly no Selena.
