Encore: A Dark Gang Romance (Academy of Stardom Book 5) by Bea Paige

Author:Bea Paige [Paige, Bea]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-11-09T16:00:00+00:00

ELEVEN

Tell Me You Love Me

PEN

“What’s the matter?” I ask Lena the following night as she glares at Gray from the other side of the room.

“Are you kidding?” she counters, her voice rising with every word. “Gray is my new boss!”

“Yes,” I reply, resting my hands on my desk in our office at Twisted Bullet. I daren’t look at York who I know is grinning with amusement from his desk in the corner of the room. Pretty sure he’s got a smug look on his face to boot. He warned me that there’d be fireworks, and that I should broach the subject with her on my own first, but I’d convinced myself she’d be happy about the fact we’ve offered the man she loves the managerial role at the club.

Talk about misjudging the situation.

“This is bullshit!” she shouts, folding her arms across her chest, her cheeks flush with rage.

“What is bullshit exactly? That we’ve offered Gray the management position or that we didn’t tell you first?”

“Both,” she snaps, nostrils flaring. “I had a right to know that he was going to be my boss.” She points at Gray, but he simply watches her with an even expression. The man’s an expert at hiding his emotions, and I know for a fact it irritates Lena. She’s said as much on several occasions.

“We thought you’d be cool with it,” York adds with a smirk. I shoot him a glare.

“Why would I be cool with it?” Lena screeches, her head snapping around as she narrows her eyes at York.

He swallows his smile, forcing a straight face. “Because you’ve known each other for years. Because you’re friends,” he offers with a shrug.

“We are not friends,” Lena snaps, her hair whirling about her face as she whips her head back around and folds her arms across her chest.

“We’re not?” Gray asks evenly, cocking his head to the side as he looks at her in that same intense, unreadable way of his. He’s always been a closed book, and I know my sister, not getting a reaction out of him will drive her insane.

“You made that pretty clear not so long ago, or have you conveniently forgotten that particular conversation, arsehole?” she counters with a scoff, this time focussing her ire on him. Gray barely reacts to her insult, which only serves to irritate her more. “Well, don’t you have anything to say?”

Keeping his focus intensely fixed on hers, he replies calmly, “I remember what I said, Lena. Pretty sure being friends was the whole point of that conversation.”

“That’s not how it went down and you know it!” she shouts, losing her cool entirely now.

“I know what I said, and I know what I meant,” he reiterates.

Lena laughs a little hysterically at that. “That’s the whole point, Gray,” she replies, firing his own words back at him. “What you say and what you actually mean are two entirely different things!”

“Woah, looks like you two need a minute to sort through your shit,” York says, rising to his feet.

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