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I frowned, confused. “Hello. Didn’t know you’d be around. Are you visiting Roarke?”
“Who is Roarke?” the guy said, and Grace tittered.
“Why don’t you stand in line for us while I talk to my friend?” she said, patting his arm, and the guy shrugged while Grace took me by the elbow and ushered me to the side.
“Let’s not talk about Roarke,” she said.
“What do you mean? Weren’t you two getting back together?” I asked slowly, my brow furrowed.
She laughed. “Oh no, honey, I was only teasing you,” Grace said, her eyes sparkling as if she was telling a funny story. “I knew he probably got into your panties, so I thought it’d be fun to rile you up.”
“What? Why would you think that?”
“I saw you looking at his office when I stormed out of there, so I knew something had already happened or was about to, so I just decided to have my last laugh with him. A final screw you, sort of speak.” She shrugged.
"But why?"
“Why not?” She smiled wickedly at me. “And since you’re here asking me these questions instead of somewhere fucking him, I guess it worked.”
My mouth dropped open but Grace just walked away, laughing, back to her date.
Grace was nasty and a liar. A nice little package with a rotten core, apparently. I supposed that package was how she’d wormed her way into Roarke’s heart. She’d definitely fooled me. I really thought they were getting back together. I’d even called Roarke a hypocrite. No wonder he was mad at me. Was that why he was so angry at me about Mark? He thought I had betrayed him? Who knew what Mark said about me, given that he was blackmailing me...for sex.
I needed to talk to my father, but I couldn’t. I needed to talk to Roarke, but I couldn’t. I couldn’t reveal what happened to my father and Roarke hated me and probably wouldn’t talk to me.
I had to do something, though.
I get out of there without my donut, and as I exited the building, I ran into a solid wall of people.
When I looked up, hoping against hope to see Roarke’s bright green eyes, it was Mark’s blue ones and a slow smirk.
“Fancy meeting you here.”
I grabbed his arm and tugged him out toward the parking lot. “Are you following me?” I hissed.
“We didn’t finish our conversation.”
I crossed my arms over my chest. “There’s no conversation. We’re done.”
“Oh, c’mon, honey. I know you’re just playing hard to get. You are dying to have me inside you. I’ve known since day one how much you want me to take you. But your little game is getting old now, and I’m sick of waiting, so it’s time to give me what I want,” Mark crooned, getting closer to me.
I slapped him across the face. “Fuck off, Mark Windham,” I spat, and hurried to my car. I hated that fear rose in me, but he was bigger than me and he had a lot of information that could ruin me.
“You’re cute when you’re angry,” he called after me. “Come to my office when you decide you don’t want Webster and the whole firm to know you’re fucking a partner.”
I got into my car, tears stinging at the backs of my eyes. I had to figure this out, and the first step was talking to Roarke.
ROARKE
I went homeand drank myself into a stupor, hiding my phone in my bedside drawer so I wouldn’t do something stupid, like call Magda. I hated the way heartbreak felt, and I’d gone through it enough times to know how to handle it – distraction.
I needed more distraction than booze, though, because all I thought about last night was Magda. Her eyes, the way she looked beneath me, her laugh. I couldn’t believe I’d fallen for yet another snake.
The next morning, instead of moping around, I focused on Mark fucking Windham. I knew that something was going on with him, and I was determined to find out what. I went to Richard’s office when I first entered the building, and he already had a frown on his face. That was unusual for Richard, so I knew he’d found something.
“Mark Windham?” I asked, and Richard nodded.
“The fucker. He’s been overbilling clients and pocketing the money. Twenty percent right in his pocket for the last year,” Richard said.
