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Madison sighed as she checked the clock on her desktop. Now she had seven minutes until her next meeting, although it was just with the head of her social media team, so she knew it wouldn’t take up too much of her time.
Madison sat back in her chair, watching Payton, a lock of her blond hair falling across her eye as she looked down at her phone.
“Anything else?” Payton added, her gaze lifting to meet Madison’s.
“Yes.” Madison needed to start dealing with the wedding invitation in her drawer. It had been sitting there for weeks, and she knew it was taking up valuable space in her head. “I need you to book some flights.”
Madison reached for her mouse and pulled up her calendar on her desktop. “To London.” She sat back, staring at the screen. She could just go for the wedding, but it made sense to make use of her time while she was there and meet with some potential business partners in London. “From August 10th. One week.”
“Okay.” Payton tapped away on her phone. “One first class ticket to London. Any hotel preferences?”
Madison started typing out an email, pasting the link to the hotel where the ceremony was on. “I’ve sent you the link. You can book a suite for the week.”
Madison absently drummed her fingers on her desk. This was crazy. “Book two tickets.”
Payton arched an eyebrow.
“I want to line up some meetings while I’m there,” Madison said quickly. “And I’ve grown accustomed to having you with me. To take notes.”
Payton stared at her. She still hadn’t said anything.
“You do have a passport?” Madison asked.
“Yeah. Yes.”
“Perfect.”
Payton cleared her throat. “You said, ‘While I’m there…’ Those meetings aren’t the main purpose of your trip?”
Madison held her gaze. “No. My ex-wife is getting remarried. Her fiancé is from London, and I’m not going that far without making it worth my while.”
Madison watched Payton’s mouth fall open. She tried to recover, sweeping a hand through her hair and looking out the window as if she was thinking about the logistics, but Madison could only guess that this reaction had everything to do with Payton’s crush on her and the fact that it was very unlikely that Payton had any idea she gay.
5
Payton ran her hand through her hair, looking anywhere but at Madison because there was no way that she was keeping her expression neutral.
In Payton’s head, she was in the middle of the dance floor at a night club and her favorite song that she hadn’t heard in at least a decade had just come on.
Adrenaline was coursing through her veins as Madison’s words seemed to run on a loop in her head ever since she’d said them.
’No. My ex-wife is getting remarried. Her fiancé is from London.’
Her ex-wife.
Madison had been married to a woman.
But she wasn’t now.
So… She was single?
Madison Dunne had been married to a woman. Holy shit.
Madison’s voice took her away from her thoughts. “Would you be willing to come to London with me?”
“Yes.” Payton spoke as she turned her head, the answer coming without hesitation. She had no life currently, so what were the chances that she would in August?
Madison opened her mouth and closed it, pushing herself out of her chair with a sigh, and before Payton could ask what was bothering her, she was pacing in front of the floor to ceiling windows that took up the entire wall.
