No Prince Charming by Angel Payne

Author:Angel Payne [Payne, Angel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, General, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781947222625
Google: dOo_DwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B077PJTL57
Barnesnoble: B077PJTL57
Publisher: Waterhouse Press
Published: 2017-11-21T07:00:00+00:00

It was almost time to let out a breath of relief.

The gala was in full swing, and Trey was the epitome of a reformed rake, thank God. We’d spent the last three days coaching him on behavior, attitude, and etiquette, especially with the media. Now, the press all but swarmed him, eating from the palm of his manicured hand.

I looked on with pride, a tiny part of me even wishing Killian were here to see his brother’s transformation. Since I’d severed every communication with the man except the bare minimum required to give him project updates, I didn’t know the details behind his delay returning from Beijing, only that he’d told Andrea some suppliers needed extra attention and he didn’t feel optimistic about making it to the gala in time.

I snorted softly to myself. “Suppliers.” My ass.

As soon as I indulged in the doubt, I mentally kicked myself. You walked off that plane swearing you’d both gotten what you wanted and were done. But then you got naked for him again, those seven thousand miles be damned, before flipping the tables on him again and damn near hanging up in his ear.

So who’s the rightful winner of the mixed-signals trophy, Claire?

Michael couldn’t have picked a better moment to appear, ready for me to hand off the “Trey Watch” duties. After giving a glowing report, I excused myself to get another drink from the bar, admiring how the gala committee had transformed the Peninsula Hotel’s ground floor in keeping with their theme, A Wild Night at the Ball. In a nutshell, it was Cinderella goes to the jungle, complete with palace walls draped in tropical vines and a midnight-countdown clock fashioned out of stacked tribal drums and palm fronds.

Despite the opulence of the surroundings, I was relieved the night would be over soon, allowing me to cab-it back to our hotel—and my private misery. The last few days had been hell. The press had glommed on to Killian’s trip to China like moss, meaning I’d seen more pictures of the Stone brothers in the past two weeks than I had in my entire life. The realization made me shoot a morose grin at the floor. Hell. If I could move better in the bodice of this gown, a clingy one-shouldered Grecian in light blue, I’d give myself a pat on the back. We’d come to do a job, and everything couldn’t be going better. Killian was a media darling, with his brother as the next obvious contender for the position. Almost. Wooten still hadn’t made a move with legal proceedings, so we all continued to hold our breath. Tonight’s success would help our efforts along for days.

I leaned against the bar to accept a fresh glass of chardonnay, attempting to relax a little while watching an older couple glide by on the dance floor, lost in each other’s eyes. Now all I had to do was ignore the pang in my heart that followed.

“You’re getting ridiculous.” I fired the reprimand at myself from locked teeth.

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