Master of Secrets (The Unredeemables Book 2) by Shannon McKenna

Author:Shannon McKenna [McKenna, Shannon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oliver Heber Books
Published: 2023-07-31T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 23

Kat

I stared at the door after it slammed shut, swallowing a lump in my throat.

We are not done. His words had sounded more like a threat than a promise, as pissed and frustrated as he was with me, but I still found them perversely comforting.

I was doing my usual harpy from hell routine, the one that had never failed to drive away an unwanted suitor. It gutted me to think it could actually work on the one man I’d ever really wanted.

Problem was, he was stubborn. He felt responsible for me, and I didn’t have time to drive him away with my bitchiness and snark. That could take weeks. At least days.

And now I was bodyguarded, for fuck’s sake. It was comical, really. I could have been a bodyguard myself. I’d been urged to be one often, but I’d always backed away. People who needed bodyguarding were all too often those people who had cameras trained on them, journalists trailing them. People like Ethan Masters himself.

It all circled back to the awful, miserable, shitty impossibility of the two of us being together. Because of what destiny had made him. Because of the demons forever on my trail. Him, a gorgeous golden boy forever in the spotlight. Me, condemned to the dark corners and the holes in the wall, like a cowering mouse in a house full of cats.

I tried hard not to be mouse-like. I had invested every last drop of my energy in learning not to act like prey. And all my efforts were for nothing. I still had to run skittering back to my dark hole in the wall whenever the light flicked on.

“Holy crap, Kat!” Joanna said, in hushed tones. “What did you do to that guy?”

“Oh, you know,” I muttered. “I was just my usual charming, scintillating self. That’s me, making friends right and left.”

Joanna whistled. “That one looks like a friend worth making! Hubba hubba!”

My throat tightened, as if there was something in there that was diamond hard and aching. “Not me,” I said thickly. “I can’t afford friends like that.”

“Who cares what you can afford? The question is, can he afford a friend like you, and the answer is unquestionably yes. The dude is stinking rich. Yesterday I looked him up. I knew I’d seen his face. And holy crap! MasterTech, for flip’s sake?”

“It’s not about money,” I said dully.

“Okay, fine. It can be about lust, then, because he’s as smoking hot as he is rich,” Joanna said enthusiastically. “When I figured out who he was, I was like…nah, maybe I’m not gonna call the cops quite yet. Maybe I’ll just give my friend a chance to land herself a big, big, fish. And from what I can see, you landed him hard. The guy is obsessed with you! Going through your underwear drawer? I mean, wowsa!”

“I can’t do this, Jo!” I protested “I can’t be with a guy like that!”

Joanna looked bewildered. “Why not? Did he do something bad to you?”

“No, no, not at all,” I said.

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