First Bites: One Bad Boy Novel And Two Paranormal Romance Novellas by Vivian Wood

Author:Vivian Wood
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Vivian Veritas Publishing

Chapter Fourteen

Rex

“You can’t remove me as CEO,” I growl into my cell phone, pacing the terrace at my flat. “It’s written in my contract that I have to choose to step down.”

“We’re not trying to remove you,” Eliza says. I can actually hear her grinning on the other end. Bitch. “We’re asking you to take a leave of absence until the royal family is less of a hot-button topic. We’re getting nonstop calls from the press right now, and every single inquiry is about you, or your father, or some such nonsense.”

“I can’t control what His Royal Highness does,” I sigh. “It isn’t as if I’ve violated my contract.”

“Violated it again, you mean.”

If I could go back in time and change things, sleeping with Eliza would be near the top of my list. I wish I’d seen her for the jealous, hateful, bitter woman that she is… instead of thinking with my cock, as usual.

“How long is this ‘leave of absence’?” I ask, knowing there’s no use fighting with her. She wouldn’t be calling if she hadn’t already whipped the votes in her favor.

“Oh, a few months, a year… who knows, really? It depends on the royals, I should think,” she says.

“I assume that you’ve already lined up an interim CEO?” I ask.

“Why, yes. As a matter of fact, I’ll be filling your shoes. Better hope I’m not too good at it, Rex.”

“Somehow, Eliza, I’m not too worried about that. Try not to fuck any of the other board members if you can help it, eh?” I ask.

Slut shaming her is beneath me, but I’ve let my temper take over. I disconnect the call before she can respond.

I toss my phone onto the table and groan. The hits just keep coming this week.

Normally to blow off steam I would head out to the track and do laps in my personal car, running it as hard as I can until I start to shred the tires.

Today, I can’t do that. It would only complicate matters further.

I wish Kit was here, I think. She wouldn’t be able to fix this, of course, but she could certainly make me feel better.

She’s gone to see to the opening of Auberge House, to make sure all is ready for her mother’s arrival.

Soon, Kit will be gone from me, too. Living at Auberge House, under her mother’s supervision. And with Countess Saville newly single, Kit will have a lot of family obligations and not a lot of time for errant, jobless assholes like me.

This little bubble of calm happiness we’ve found is about to burst, and that makes me even angrier.

As I head into the kitchen, a tabloid lying on the coffee table catches my eye.

Prince Magnum Living the High Life Once Again!!! it says, with a four-year-old photo of me standing shirtless on a yacht.

Yeah, right. I fucking wish. I’d give just about anything to be on a yacht right now, pouring champagne into Kit’s open mouth as she stretches out on the deck under the glinting Aegean sun.

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