Free and Bound by Chloe Cox

Author:Chloe Cox [Cox, Chloe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-05-21T05:00:00+00:00

21

Olivia stood there with her mouth open and just stared at Simone for what felt like a full minute.

Had she heard?

Literally the one thing Olivia and Gavin had to do was keep this whole arrangement a secret, and Olivia had just used the word ‘fake’ about seventeen billion times with Simone Delavigne standing right behind her.

Simone raised one artfully sculpted eyebrow. “Aren’t you going to say anything?” she said.

Olivia racked her brain. They’d never even been introduced. Then she swallowed, and stepped forward with her hand out.

“I’m Olivia,” she said.

Simone looked at her hand, then at Olivia.

“I know,” Simone said, loudly. “Believe me, I know.”

“I don’t know what you want me to say,” Olivia said.

Which had the advantage of being absolutely, completely true.

Simone glared.

“Do you have any idea what you did the other day?”

“No?” Olivia said.

The two women stared at each other. Well, Simone stared, and hard. Olivia just tried to move as little possible. The other woman seemed to be studying her, and Olivia had no idea what she was looking for.

Finally Simone rolled her eyes and sighed.

“You really don’t, do you?” she said.

“Believe me, at this moment, I am confident that I don’t know anything about anything,” Olivia said. “But I’m sorry if I did something to upset you. I really mean that,” she added softly.

“You were there,” Simone said. “All I saw was you storming your way into that stupid secret vote, and then my father’s face when he left that same stupid secret vote. Do you have any idea what you did?”

Olivia cringed. She tried to remember what she’d said in that meeting, but she’d been so hopped up on adrenaline that she’d just sort of…winged it. She didn’t remember the words so much as the feelings, and the feelings had been powerful. She was pretty sure she’d said Club Volare actually saved lives.

But she still didn’t know anything about Daniel Delavigne, or the past, or why he hated Gavin enough to kill the club. Especially when his daughter was apparently…involved.

“Did you ask your father?” Olivia said.

Simone looked at her. “It’s not the kind of conversation you want to have with your dad.”

Well, you couldn’t argue with that. Olivia had been avoiding that line of thought, herself. Turns out, now that this whole submission thing was real? The idea of telling other people about it was terrifying.

I’m twisting in the wind here. Simone looked away in disgust, and Olivia couldn’t totally blame her. She watched the other woman look over the room, the huge padded leather cross, the chandelier, and saw a mirror of her own reactions. She wanted to find some way to tell her she understood, sort of, that they had that in common, that…

Oh my God, I am an idiot.

They obviously did have a whole lot in common.

Olivia had been trying so hard to juggle all of her responsibilities—supporting her family, saving the family business, saving the club, avoiding anything stupid and selfish like falling in love—that she hadn’t really stopped to think about whether or not her hair-brained schemes might actually hurt anyone else.

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