03 Heller's Girlfriend - Heller by JD Nixon

Author:JD Nixon [Nixon, JD]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: romance, relationships, mystery, adventure, chick lit
Publisher: JD Nixon
Published: 2012-04-28T01:45:39+00:00

Chapter 18

After another few weeks of convalescing, including a check-up with Dr Kincaid where I received the all-clear, Heller deemed me well enough to go back to work. I was mostly recovered, only a few small patches remaining on some of the worst burns, and my skin had returned to normal.

Heller called Clive and me to his office. We came in and sat down. He smiled at us.

“I have a new assignment for next week. Very high profile. Yoni Lemere will be in the city for approximately one week from Saturday.”

Yoni Lemere! She was an ex-pat Hollywood A-lister and this assignment would be my first encounter with a real celebrity, although I’d worked for famous people before. The media would go wild on her return, especially as she had recently, and very acrimoniously, broken up with her second husband, another actor. He’d walked out on her for his sexy young co-star after they’d both strenuously denied any marriage problems for months beforehand. She hadn’t handled the split with great dignity, being filmed by the paparazzi, exceedingly drunk and only half-dressed, yelling abuse at him from the street outside his house in the middle of the night. It had become a YouTube sensation and her creative use and extensive knowledge of curse words had equally amused and shocked the world.

“She’s here doing publicity for her new movie, including attending its premiere, as well as some charity work. She needs a security team, about six men, with her whenever she’s in public, which will be frequently. She also wants someone with her at all times, so I’m afraid that means another sleep-over job for you, Matilda.”

“Good,” I blurted out without thinking. His expression was unreadable. There was nothing I would love more than to be safely away from any prospect of having to listen to further long and boring exaltations about Vanessa.

“Clive, can you work out the roster for the security detail and let me know by tomorrow so we can give the men some advanced warning.”

“No problems, Boss,” Clive grunted and left. I was about to leave as well, when he shook his head.

“Stay please, Matilda.” I flopped back in my chair. “Do you want to come on site visits with me today?”

Normally I’d have loved to do that and would have said yes in a blink. And truth be told, I badly missed being with him. But then I thought about all that time in the car together and remembered the last site visits I’d done with him when he’d talked about Vanessa endlessly.

I stood up, shaking my head in refusal, and left his office without speaking, returning to my desk. And although it made me miserable to turn him down, I literally just couldn’t keep talking about Vanessa any more. I’d told him what I thought about her, he disagreed, and as far as I was concerned there was nothing more to say on the matter. He wouldn’t listen to me and I didn’t want to listen to him.

He set off for the day, throwing me a troubled glance on the way out.

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