Fast Deal by Faye Avalon

Author:Faye Avalon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-07-08T20:03:23+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

EMILY WAS STILL OUT when Lola rushed up to their flat. She grabbed a few supplies then scribbled a note telling her friend that she wouldn’t be home again that night.

Lola knew she needed to put Emily’s mind at rest about what was going on. They’d spoken on the phone earlier that day when Lola had admitted that her conversation with Damian hadn’t gone well. She knew Emily was worried about her spending time with Connor while this secret lay between them. So was she.

It doesn’t have to mean anything for either of us beyond good sex. We’re not making it into anything else.

Would he feel that way when he knew the truth? Would he shrug off what they’d shared as something that didn’t matter? That didn’t have to influence a business transaction between them?

She feared he wouldn’t be able to do that. Hadn’t he also said that he found it hard to trust?

Nausea settled in her stomach at the knowledge that she would be responsible for adding another cruel layer to his trust issues. The very last thing she wanted to do was hurt him and the longer this went on between them without her admitting who she was, the worse it would be for Connor.

And for her. Because she was getting herself in too deep. She was starting to really care about him, and about the consequences for him if she continued this charade. There was also the possibility that the longer she delayed telling him the truth, the more likely he was to refuse selling the Cabacal to her.

Despite everything, she couldn’t seem to not want him. Couldn’t deny herself the opportunity to spend another night with him.

Soon, everything would change between them, so couldn’t she just have this one last time?

She wanted it. So much. And she was going to take it. She slipped a change of underwear in her bag, along with some toiletries from the bathroom, then headed back out to where Connor was waiting for her. She knew that she should have invited him up, but she didn’t want him seeing anything that might make him suspicious. It was safer to let him wait in his car. Thankfully, he hadn’t pushed.

The fact he had showed no interest in seeing where she lived confirmed that he saw this as a temporary thing between them. That it would burn itself out. There was no need for him to concern himself with the inside of her flat, or anything else in her life that didn’t relate to their time between the sheets.

The thought sat heavily in her chest.

Perhaps this was a good thing. If he wasn’t invested in anything they shared other than excellent sex, then her eventual revelation wouldn’t hit him as hard. She might not add to his trust issues as deeply as she’d feared.

That was a cop-out, but it went some way towards alleviating her guilt. But only some way, because the spectre of her deceit was always lying there just beneath the surface.

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