Lured: An Arranged Marriage Forced Proximity Romance (A Billionaire's Secrets Book 1) by Simone Fox

Author:Simone Fox [Fox, Simone]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781640346482
Publisher: Crave Publishing
Published: 2023-01-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Saturday, it turned out, was some big gala event that Ava was forcing me to attend.

It must be some kind of karmic debt that I was working off that was forcing me to attend so many stuffy events in the span of a few months. A cruel and sick joke from the universe that I would’ve been more than happy to just take getting hit by a bus over than attend one of these bullshit events again.

If I thought Ava was annoying to deal with beforehand, then she was downright insufferable the few hours before we were to arrive at the venue. I’d never met a vainer person in my life, which was saying something because the Machiavelli family was a whole different breed.

After this entire thing was said and done and I was safely back in the confines of my room to decompress, I was going to call Max and bitch at him for leaving me stranded by myself.

What kind of best friend let me do this to myself? Didn’t he have a moral obligation to save me from myself?

Where was the loyalty…

“Caleb!” Her shrill voice had me grimacing. “The car’s here! Hurry up!”

I tugged at my tie once more, and the mirror reflected back my annoyance tenfold. I was sure by the end of this, I was going to end up with a splitting headache. Downing a few glasses of champagne should help with that, or at the very least make Ava’s presence more tolerable.

She was waiting for me at the front door, a silver-colored dress adorning her. It was very tight and showed off every single asset that she had. Her hair was pulled back into a loose ponytail that sat high on top of her head, the sides of which were folded down to create wave-like layers that had been pinned to the sides of her head.

Her makeup was darker than I’d seen it so far, going for a sultry look that didn’t exactly sit right with me. I never claimed to know about Ava’s sex life, nor did I really care, but if we were going to eventually spin the tail of being secret lovers, then going out looking like a bombshell in order to kiss-ass with a bunch of beneficiaries wasn’t going to look good.

There was a fine line in having a spicy PR story and a scandalous one. And one of them wasn’t a good look for an upcoming political campaign.

It didn’t take us long to get downstairs and into the car, both of us silent in the elevator on the way down. At this point, our animosity was kind of tiring. When I’d first taken this job, I didn’t care what exactly my actual relationship with Ava would be. I wasn’t so naive to think of us as becoming friends, but even uncaring acquaintances was better than whatever the fuck this was.

Similarly to the elevator ride, the drive over was filled with stony silence, only momentarily interrupted by Ava’s phone going off with texts and her fingers flying over her screen to answer them.

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