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“Fuck, Aura. That is so messed up. I’m sorry.”
“Me too, Dex. Let me know when you need me, and I’ll make plans to head over there.”
“Okay, let me get the details and set a date. I’ll call you to let you know. Bye, Aura,” he says, sounding defeated before hanging up.
33
KALUM
“So how’s Aura?” Cason asks, sitting in front of my desk at my New York office.
“She’s okay, I guess. The security you have on detail has reported no issues.”
Cason pinches his brows together and raises a finger. “Wait…are you telling me you don’t see her? When was the last time you physically saw her?”
“The day I showed her the house she’s staying in,” I say sternly.
He wipes his hand over his face. “You’re telling me her husband basically gave you the green light, and you haven’t spent a day with her? The girl you let go because one of our friends fell in love with her. The girl you were going to throw everything away for, and you left her in a house you bought for her and her son… by the way, for twenty million. You’re telling me you haven’t tried to tell her how you feel about her?”
“Felt about her as in I don’t anymore.”
Cason scoffs. “You are such a liar.”
The door opens, and Janine walks in. “Who is such a liar?”
“Your boss.”
“About what?” Janine asks.
“Aura,” Cason says.
Janine shakes her head and hands me a folder with the status of a new building I’m constructing in New York.
“He has her hidden in a twenty-million-dollar house and refuses to visit her. If you could see the way his expression changes when you mention her,” Janine says. “It’s priceless. Photo worthy.”
Cason laughs. “Janine, you should see the way he looks at her. It will give you hope that he could love someone.”
“Stop putting things in Janine’s head. I’m not in love with her. The poor woman lost her husband and has a son to raise, with said husband’s family trying to destroy her because he shunned them until the day he died. Any feelings I had for Aura, which was more of the teenage sexual variety, is in the past where it belongs.”
“Then you wouldn’t mind if I see her?” Cason taunts.
My knuckles turn white when I grip the desk. Cason has always liked Aura since high school, and imagining him with her makes me want to reach over my modern glass desk and rip his throat out.
“Leave her alone, Cason,” I warn, looking at the file.
“Well, at least it will be nice for her to know who has provided all her security. She will feel... safer.”
Cason started his own protective service company, branching out from his family’s worldwide protection services for the super rich. He has made a name for himself in the States when powerful leaders travel worldwide needing the best of the best, sparing no expense. Cason’s company, Zenith, is the world’s most sought-after private security company. Like me, he is also single and doesn’t like being in a relationship. We usually hang out and shoot the shit when we are not working or fucking the flavor of the week.
“No,” I say. “Is the security detail ready for tonight?”
He leans forward. “You’re seriously contemplating on taking out Meredith when you have a gorgeous young woman all alone that I would chop off my right arm to spend one night with?”
“What is wrong with Meredith?”
“She is not Aura. That’s what is wrong with her.”
“You’re right. She isn’t,” I explain. “She doesn’t expect anything but a good time, and that is what tonight is all about. A good time.”
