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“Mr. Ward?”
Torn, I try to weigh up my options, feeling like I’m being held to ransom. “Fine,” I snap, agitated.
“I can charge it to the card we hold on file?”
“Yes,” I hiss. “Is she there?”
“Mrs. Seymour?”
“No, Pussy Galore.”
“Excuse me?”
“Yes, Mrs. Seymour, Julian. Is she there?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Put her on.” I think I could burn holes through the glass of my windscreen with my hard stare.
“Hello,” Coral says, soft and unsure.
“Why did you call me this morning?” I ask shortly, starting my car and pulling away before Ava clocks me loitering outside the bar and accuses me of crowding her again.
Coral stalls, silent, shocked by my question. Because she obviously thinks Ava’s told me and is also obviously wondering what Ava said. “Your girlfriend told you?”
“No,” I say, turning into a side street and pulling over. “My fiancée did.” I am a classified dickhead. For sure.
“Fiancée?” she breathes as I rub at my forehead. “You’re getting married?”
Cringing, I shrink into the leather of my chair. “Why did you call me, Coral?”
“To thank you. For the hotel.”
“There’s no need to thank me.” I never want to speak to her again, and I won’t after this call. “I’ve authorized the hotel to charge my card, but you need to find somewhere to stay.”
“I will. Just as soon as my parents are home.”
I nod, checking my mirrors and pulling out. “I wish you the best, Coral.” I hang up and put my foot down, heading back to Lusso, and the second I pull through the gates, I hear a horn sounding. I look up at my rearview mirror and see Sam in his Porsche behind me, Drew in the passenger seat.
I park and get out as Sam pulls into the space next to me. “We’re here to save the day,” he declares.
I snort and throw Drew an accusing stare. “Where the fuck were you when I called this morning?” He freezes, the door of Sam’s Porsche half closed, looking between us.
“Why the fuck is everyone so concerned by where I’ve been?” he snaps, slamming the door and storming past me, heading into Lusso.
Call me suspicious, but I get the feeling Drew was somewhere he shouldn’t have been last night. I look at Sam, tilting my head, and he shrugs. “Spoke to Kate?”
“Yes, I’ve spoken to Kate.”
“And?”
We start to tail Drew as Sam considers me for a few moments. “There’s definitely something she’s not telling me.”
“So ask her.”
He laughs. “You think I’m gonna take relationship advice from a man who’s convinced by marrying a woman she could never leave him, no matter what he’s done or what she finds out?”
“I’m marrying her because I love her.”
