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“Fuck, she is trying for a bigger game, isn’t she?” I whispered. “She wants something more than me out of the way.”
Landon nodded. “Yeah, we’re waiting for her to show her hand, and Jensen is trying to anticipate it. I’m so sorry that you got caught in her crosshairs.”
I glanced over his shoulder and froze. “I think we’re about to find out.”
“Why do you…” Landon started.
Then, he followed my gaze and found Miranda striding straight toward us.
Chapter Thirty-Eight
Landon
Miranda’s painted-on cherry-red dress drew eyes from all directions. And it was exactly what she wanted. So, I purposefully looked away from her and searched out Jensen and Morgan in the crowd. They weren’t hard to find, standing at the front of the room with a handful of big donors. As if she could sense me watching her, Morgan nudged Jensen, and he frowned in my direction when he realized Miranda was here.
Showtime.
“Don’t engage her,” I told Heidi. I moved in front of her, so I was shielding her from Miranda.
“Landon, I am not going to sit back and let her assault you. If she’s the bitch who made me lose my job, then I’m going to give her a piece of my mind.”
Oh, Heidi. God, I love you.
“You’ll be giving her what she wants. It’d be better if you let me handle this. She wants to fuck with me anyway. You’re just…in her way.”
“Fuck that,” she muttered.
“I second that, love,” I whispered before Miranda came face-to-face with me.
Miranda stopped only a foot from me and smiled, as if she were truly excited to see me. As if the last time we had come face-to-face, I hadn’t thrown money at her like a common whore.
“Hello, darling,” Miranda said with a seductive smile. “I’ve missed you.”
“Can’t say the same,” I said.
Her eyes darted behind me to find Heidi standing there. I was sure she was glaring.
Miranda huffed. “I guess Wright has really lowered their standards this year on who they let in to their biggest charity event of the season.”
I gave her a pointed look. “It seems so.”
“Oh, you’re so adorable when you’re upset.”
“Did you do it, Miranda?”
“Do what, pet? I’ve done a lot of things,” she said with a wink.
“Did you take the videos and send them to the company?”
She batted her eyelashes at me. “What videos?”
“You know damn well what videos.”
“I asked you point-blank if you were seeing someone else, Landon. You told me no.” She cocked her head to the side. “I wanted proof for myself.”
“What did you hope to accomplish by this?” I asked. I had to clench my hands into fists to keep them from shaking in anger.
“I thought you would see the error of your ways and come back to me,” Miranda told me.
