Bad Boss: A Steamy Romantic Comedy by Liv Lane

Author:Liv Lane [Lane, Liv]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-02-17T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

I’VE BEEN ON a rollercoaster for the last week, and my insides are in knots as I make my way to the office. I’ve blocked his number, and ignored all the calls from unknown numbers.

All ten of them.

The bright enthusiasm I had last week has lost some of its luster—I can’t believe he’s married.

Married with children.

Their little boy had a broken arm. There was a cute spider-man sleeve over it, which I would have found adorable under other circumstances. Except Matt was with me, rocking my world, when he should have been with them, and now I feel like a dirty little secret.

Only I’m not a secret, and all I feel is dirty.

How did I not know this? How could this possibly not be on social media? His whole life is on social media! I went and checked after I got home and encouraged both Betty and Mary to vacate my space so I could process what had happened.

Scoured the internet in the kind of detail that put my prior stalking to shame.

Nothing, not one thing. And worse, his little boy has to be around five years old, which means some of those other documented relationships were also happening while he was married with kids.

I’m such an idiot. I don’t think I could hate myself more than I do right now. I have a standard, and I’ve leaped it with a pole-vault. I’m that woman—the one that his wife probably complains to her friends about. Seriously, I popped an orgasm in less than five minutes, two in less than ten. No man acquires that level of skill without racking up the mileage. He’s amazing in bed and ridiculously wealthy, and she has the children to consider so I could understand why she might be inclined to look the other way.

I mean, I wouldn’t, but I can see why she might.

Actually, I don’t have a clue what I’d do in her place, he’s the kind of man who makes women do foolish things, I’m a testament to that.

None of this rationalization makes me feel any less sick. I thought last week was challenging, this one is going to be worse.

On top of this is the humiliation of the team seeing me leave with him. He’s probably a freaking Casanova taking a different girl home every freaking week.

The hardest part is that I love my job. Andrew’s team is fantastic, and I’ve let them down with my mistake.

I got through Coffeegate, I can get through this, I tell myself. Soon it will be nothing but a bad memory, old news they talk about in passing. They might even forget me if the list is long enough.

I stop at the coffee vendor, because why not? If I see him this morning, I might go ahead and toss my coffee over him accidentally on purpose.

But he doesn’t turn up, and I take the full elevator to my floor.

In my twenty-two years of life, I’ve come to understand that bad impressions travel twice as

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