Brother to the Boss: Billionaire Romance (Managing the Bosses Series Book 8) by Lexy Timms

Author:Lexy Timms [Timms, Lexy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dark Shadow Publishing
Published: 2016-06-19T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

“Are you sure you’re okay, Jamie?” Christine asked for the second time.

Jamie looked up from the glass of wine she was staring moodily into and tried to find a smile for her sister. “Yeah,” she said. “I’m good.”

Christine shook her head. “I don’t really believe that, you know. I'm not stupid, Jamie.”

She sounded so much like the old Christine that Jamie turned to look at her sister, eyebrows lifted.

“First off,” Christine said, pausing to lift her wine glass to her lips for a sip. “I work at the country club. And I was there when Alex showed up looking all kinds of less than happy. And secondly, I know you well enough to see when you're unhappy.” She glanced away. “Just because I ignored it before doesn't mean that I don't know.”

Jamie sighed. She hadn't heard the full story of what happened between Mark and Alex yet, only knew that Alex had come home last night in a mood and had hardly spoken to her before storming up the stairs to bed. When she'd crawled in with him later, he'd either been asleep or pretending to be, and she hadn't really been in the mood to check. If he wanted to act like the entire world was against him, that was his prerogative, but she wasn't going to indulge him in it. “Well, I'm sure you know that things haven't been the greatest lately. I mean, with Alex.”

“I know that Mark hasn't been happy lately, and that the argument with Alex seemed to really upset him, but I don't know what caused it. I also know that you've been unhappy lately, but you haven't really talked about it either, except to say that Alex was dealing with things at work.”

“Well,” Jamie said slowly, “there’s this man named Nicholas. He used to have a thing for me, actually. Kept trying to get me to go out to dinner with him when Alex and I were first dating. I went once, but I was too in love with Alex to be really into him. At the time, I thought he was a nice guy.”

Christine nodded.

“To make a long story short, he tried to help Alex by convincing the secretary who had been with him since Reid Enterprises started to authorize herself a new company card and start buying totally unapproved things with it. To show how overworked and distracted Alex was or something. Of course it ended up with Gina getting fired, and I think Nicholas is lucky he didn't end up in jail. Alex settled with him and we thought that was the end of it. Only now he's come back, and he's secretly been buying stock out from under Alex. Which means that Alex has been spending almost all of his time at work trying to deal with it, because he won't give any of the problem over to the people he hired to help him with problems.”

She couldn't keep the frustration out of her voice, and Christine's expression shifted, becoming sympathetic.

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