Hood Riley and the Ice Man: Just When I Needed You Most by Mallory Monroe

Author:Mallory Monroe [Monroe, Mallory]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Austin Brook Publishing
Published: 2023-01-09T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINETEEN

For the next few hours, Hood was bored to tears. Dinner should have been served by now, she thought, because she was starved. But it wasn’t that kind of dinner. It was all about networking and leaving your business card and asking her if Max could do this favor for them or that favor for them as if she was going to advocate for those rich fools she didn’t even know. And although she kept it polite, she wasn’t going to put on any fake smiles or laugh at any unfunny jokes or agree to tell Max anything. He asked her to be there, and she was there. The selling job would have to be up to Max.

But not unsurprising to Hood, Rita and Ricky were far more relaxed than she was. They had those outgoing personalities that knew how to blend in. Or at least pretend to blend in. Ricky had even managed to talk and smile his way into the billiards room for a gentlemanly game of pool, and Rita didn’t have to do much to get several men talking to her. The women didn’t seem interested. But their husbands did!

Hood was momentarily alone, taking a breather from all of the networking, when she saw Max walk into that house.

And when Max walked in, looking so debonair in his head-to-toe Armani; looking so gorgeous to Hood that she still was having a hard time believing she was his wife, she didn't quite know what to do. But it was true. He was her husband. She was his wife. And she was thrilled to see him again.

And as soon as Max walked in it was as if the party had just begun. The mayor, his wife, and every other big wig were tripping over each other getting to Max. And he knew how to play the game. He was a great glad-hander and back slapper too. He was in his element.

But when he glanced over at Hood, the hairs on the back of her neck stood up. Because she knew that look he gave her. And it was not the look of love. But the look of shame. Of his shame.

Hood wanted to hurry over to him and ask him what happened, but she couldn’t do it. Because there was no disguising that look. She knew that look. And she knew, based on that look, that something terrible had happened that was going to rock their marriage. Somehow Hood could feel it.

Another sign was the way he didn’t rush over to greet his still-newlywed wife the way most husbands would do, but continued to hold court with his admirers. Hood watched him gladhand and backslap and do what he had to do to get what he wanted from those people. Because Max was like that too. He loved wheeling and dealing. He loved when deals came together. But Hood was anxious to know what that look was about? What happened in New York? Because something happened. Or would

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