Crossing the Line by Megan Hart

Author:Megan Hart
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-06-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

“What the hell were you thinking?” Jamison tossed a sheaf of printed pages onto the conference room table. Bobby’d printed out all the latest media updates. They scattered, but he didn’t bother to pick them up.

Caite didn’t, either. She sat with her hands folded neatly on the tabletop. Today she wore a crisp white shirt and a black skirt. Black pumps. Her honey-blond hair had been pulled into a neat French twist, and in her ears were creamy pearl studs. Her bare throat, uncollared by any jewelry, taunted him.

So did her mouth.

“I’m not sure what you’re getting at,” she said.

“All of these pictures. The video.” Jamison tilted the conference room’s laptop toward her to show off the screen, which showed a picture of Caite and that asshole Tommy whatever-the-fuck-his-name-was doing shots. And dancing. And laughing. Not kissing, but there was the suggestion of that, too. And lots of commentary about it.

“Treasure House Tommy’s new gal pal,” he said, reading one of the comments.

Caite snorted. “Oh, brother.”

Jamison was as far from laughing as the sun from Pluto. “This isn’t what we pay you for.”

Caite’s laughter cut off abruptly. She sat up higher in her chair, shoulders squaring. One eyebrow lifted, but her fingers didn’t even twitch. “What’s that supposed to mean?”

“It means that your job’s to keep these forons in the public view in a positive light, not...not...” He stopped himself before his voice could rise into a shout, though he wanted it to.

“Not...have fun? Not mix business with pleasure? Not get the buzz going about them? You are aware that last night’s Buzzvid clip was rebuzzed more than a thousand times, and that the Wolfe and Baron account got more than five hundred new followers? I don’t know how many each of the three Treasure House accounts got, but the comments were in the thousands, too.” Her chin went up a little bit. “Compared to the night Nellie got arrested, I’m pretty sure we got a lot more positive growth from a few pictures of us all having a good time.”

He didn’t want to think about the night Nellie had been arrested. Or what had happened afterward, in Caite’s apartment. Or why what had happened was making him so angry now.

“You’re not supposed to be having a good time with...him.”

Now both her eyebrows lifted, and her lips parted on a huff of surprise. “I wasn’t aware that anything I choose to do when I’m not on the clock is any of your business.”

“It is when it reflects on the reputation of this company.” Jamison heard the words spitting from his mouth. He even believed them. But at the same time, he knew he was full of shit.

Caite pushed her chair away from the table and stood. Aside from the slight tremble in her voice when she answered him, she was perfectly calm. “If you don’t like the way I do my job, Mr. Wolfe, then I suggest you find a replacement.”

Silence swelled between them, sharp as glass, as knives.

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