Hollywood Hero: A Sexy Billionaire Romance (The Director's Assistant Book 4) by Nikki Steele

Author:Nikki Steele [Steele, Nikki]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2016-03-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

“Christian,” I said.

He stepped up beside me. “Yes?”

“I’m sorry I called you those names before.”

McNamara burst into fit of surprised coughing. I ignored him.

“Seriously,” I said. “I mean, you’ve done some bad stuff, but you’re actually a nice guy.”

“That’s okay. I did kind of deserve it.”

“Well… yes. But still, it wasn’t very nice of me.”

“What the hell is going on here?” McNamara exploded. “I tell you I’m keeping the videos, and you just start apologizing to Captain Wimpy in the corner?”

I turned back to face blue smoke and bright red face. “Well, I’ve got everything I wanted from you, I guess.”

“I don’t think so,” McNamara spluttered. “I’ve got the tape, and the videos too. I hold all the cards—the only thing you’re holding are your hands up in supplication.”

“Don’t forget Christian’s debt, too,” I said. “You’ve also got that.”

McNamara stilled. “What do you mean?”

“Well it makes sense, doesn’t it? You got me to work for you through blackmail. Why wouldn’t you do the same with him?”

He looked from myself to Christian and then back to me suspiciously. “You’re right, of course. We do own a sizable amount of debt on Christian.” He jabbed a cigar at Christian viciously. “And you’d better not forget it, either. What is it your father has again? I keep forgetting. Those drugs keeping him alive don’t come cheap.”

Christian reached into his pocket, fiddling with something, then pulling it out. It was his phone. “I’ve never forgotten,” he said, eye on the phone as he typed something in. “Not the way you’ve treated me, or the way you’ve treated my father—cutting him off each time I tried to walk away.”

His hand went to my shoulder and squeezed it, gently, once he was done. “When Josie and Archer caught me in that studio, I thought… well, doing something anonymously is one thing, but being found out is another. I… I wasn’t in a good state, after I got away. I’d gone as far as buying a rope, and writing a note.”

Then a smile crossed his face. The first genuine happy emotion I’d seen in him since we arrived. “Then Josie sent me a text—she still had my number. And she… well, she gave me a chance at redemption.” He looked at me gratefully. “I can still remember that text—in fact, I have it right here: ‘There are three things in life that are important—love, family and a clear conscience. I know Janus is holding something over you. Let’s work together to fix it,” he said, reading off the screen.

“It was something my mother said,” I said softly.

He gave my shoulder another squeeze. “She’s a smart woman.” Then he looked at McNamara again. “It was funny. I had the love of my father, and working for you I had the second point too—but I realized with Janus I’d never had the third. That’s when I replied to her text, and we came up with a plan.”

“What plan?” asked McNamara, suspiciously.

“This plan,” said Christian, holding up his smartphone, then pulling out the small microphone that had previously plugged into it, still in his pocket.

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