Marrying the Master (Standalone Romance) (Club Volare Book 4) by Chloe Cox

Author:Chloe Cox [Cox, Chloe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Romantic Suspense, Mystery & Suspense, Suspense
Amazon: B00CF4TX0W
Publisher: Chloe Cox
Published: 2013-12-25T00:00:00+00:00

chapter 14

“You look distracted,” Jake Jayson said.

He was not the first person to mention this to Roman. It was starting to become annoying.

“A lot on your mind?” Jake continued. He was smiling.

“What are you smiling about, Jacob?” Roman snapped.

Jake laughed out loud as they walked through the Volare lounge, sparsely populated at this relatively early hour. Roman had come by to check on the operation of the club, something he’d asked Jake to watch over while Roman and Lola dealt with the wedding preparations, Harold Jeels, the publicity push—and while Roman secretly dealt with the preparations for the LA location. Jake was eager to do it; he had time on his hands while his fiancée Catie visited her grandmother in California.

“I’m smiling because not a few months ago, you laughed at me when I had the same look on my face, and for the same reason.”

There was no question; Jake Jayson was relishing this. The heir to an industrial fortune who had devoted himself to charity had, a few months previously, found himself a pawn in one of Roman’s better plots. Roman had set him up with Catie without informing anyone that Roman knew Catie to be working undercover for a gossip magazine. Roman had been confident that Jake would be the Dom to get Catie to open up, and he’d been right—the result was an engagement.

Of course, the Sizzle article—and Lola’s fury—had been collateral damage. And, as Roman recalled with a grimace, Jake hadn’t been thrilled about being left out of the loop, either.

“You did not have Lola to deal with,” Roman finally said. Then something clicked. “What do you mean, ‘the same reason?’ It’s hardly the same situation.”

Jake stopped, his hand on the door that led to the Volare performance space, and looked at Roman with something akin to disbelief.

“Incredible,” he said, shaking his head. “See if you say the same thing in a couple of months.”

Roman glowered. He would let it go. At the moment he had too many other things on his mind—namely, Lola. He was used to being able to easily see how the pieces in any given puzzle would fit together, and for this reason the various situations surrounding the future of Volare didn’t worry him. They occupied him, but they did not worry him.

Lola was another matter.

“What is this?” Roman said, gesturing at the stage. There were a number of people bustling about, doing hurried bits of choreography, blocking out steps, coordinating lighting effects.

Jake grinned. “A burlesque show from L.A. They come highly recommended.”

He had really been out of the Volare loop.

“I’ve been busy,” he said.

“Yes, with your wedding.”

Jake was one of the few people who knew the origins of the fraud marriage, which made that comment…annoying. “Yes,” Roman said, “with the publicity campaign.”

“It seems as though Lola has forgiven you for lying to her about Catie.”

“We have reached a kind of…working détente.”

Jake laughed out loud again, an unusual display of emotion from the normally reserved man. “Is that what you’re calling it?”

Roman

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