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“In that case, do you want some more?”
She held up a hand. “I already feel like I’m going to regret this conversation when I wake up in the morning, so thanks, but no thanks.”
I chuckled, leaning back in again. “If we’re friends, then show me the combat part of this game you hate.”
“Ugh, fine.” She turned a little, tilting her screen in my direction. “Hold on. I have to get a chub for Willy.”
I opened my mouth with every intention of asking her to clarify, but quickly changed my mind.
I wasn’t even going to ask.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN – CHLOE
How The Other Half Live
“You know, if you bomb out of this whole Vice-President of the company thing, you’d have a smashing future as a tour guide for this place,” I said, gazing around the entry hall of Buckley Manor, the ancestral seat of the Duke of Ruxleigh.
“I have no intention of bombing the ‘whole Vice-President of the company thing,’ as you so eloquently put it, but thank you all the same.” Theodore laughed, his gaze hovering on me. “I’m not sure I’m cut out to be a tour guide.”
“Why not? I’m impressed by how much knowledge of your family history you have.”
“It was beaten into me as a child.”
“I’d ask you if you’re being serious, but I can really imagine it.” I wrapped my arms around myself and peered at the portraits on the wall. “Thank you for showing me around here. I’m sure you had other things you’d rather be doing today.”
Theodore smiled. “I really didn’t. Besides, the tour isn’t over yet.”
“What do you mean?”
“You’ve got a VIP tour guide.” His smile stretched into a full-fledged grin, and he laid his hand on my lower back, guiding me towards the library. “And you were personally invited here by the Duke of Ruxleigh, which means you can see places here that nobody else has seen.”
“Wait.” I turned, placing my hand on his chest to stop him in his tracks. “I’m pretty sure this is how women die in horror movies.”
“I swear on my life there’s nobody here who would dare kill you, horror movie or not.” He wrapped his fingers around my wrist, his smile reflected in his grey-blue eyes as he peered down at me. “You’ve only seen the official tour of Buckley Manor. How about the unofficial one?”
I narrowed my eyes. “Never mind a horror movie. This is how innocent girls get lured into porn.”
Theodore stared at me for a moment before he burst out laughing, pulling my hand from his chest and releasing his grip on my wrist. “There’s no porn being filmed here. Not today, anyway.”
I froze. “What?”
Another deep laugh rumbled out of him. “I’m joking. We don’t hire out for porn. Movies and TV shows, yes, but not porn.”
I eyed him as he slid his hand from my back to my wrist and tugged me after him. “I’m not sure if I believe you or not.”
“What kind of porn would be filmed here?”
“I don’t know if I’m comfortable answering that.”
“Then don’t bring it up in the first place.”
He made an excellent point.
He was myboss.
Boss.
Superior.
