Protection, Inc. Collection Two by Zoe Chant

Author:Zoe Chant [Chant, Zoe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zoe Chant
Published: 2018-12-29T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Grace

“Your ex-wife.”

The words struck Grace to the heart.

She stared at Rafa, hoping against hope that she’d somehow misheard or misunderstood. But the shock, horror, and guilt written all over his face told her everything she needed to know.

The words flew out of her mouth as fast as she could think them: “Ex-wife? Ex-wife? You and Paris used to be married?! You said you’d never been romantically involved!”

“We weren’t!” Rafa exclaimed. “Yes, we did used to be married, but only—”

Paris’s clear voice cut through his deep one; she’d returned from the dressing room and was standing with a thermos dangling from her hand. “Rafa, you didn’t tell her?”

“I was going to—I was waiting for the right moment—” he protested.

“The right moment would have been before we had sex!” Grace shouted.

“You had sex with the bodyguard?” Brady asked, at the same moment that Paris said accusingly to Rafa, “You had sex with Grace and you didn’t tell her?”

“Yeah, but—” Rafa began.

“How could you?” said the silver-haired woman.

“What the hell, man!” exclaimed Rafa’s friend Nick.

Rafa turned to Grace. He looked like he’d been stabbed in the heart, but that didn’t make her feel any better. She worked with actors. A good actor could make himself show any emotion he liked. Her ex-boyfriend Dean had been a very good actor.

“I’m so, so sorry.” Rafa sounded sincere. But then, he would. “I should have told you right away. But it’s not what you think. We were only married for—”

Liar, Grace thought, the storm in her mind too loud to hear the rest of what he was saying. Cheater. Too good to be true.

Anger and sadness fought within her, and sadness won. She burst into tears.

Yesterday, she would have thought that crying in front of everyone and on the job would be her worst nightmare come true. But now she knew what her real worst nightmare was. It was meeting a man who she’d dared to dream might be her man. Her one-and-only, forever. And then discovering that he was just the pretense of a good guy, not the real thing; an actor playing a role, as fake as the Mars rocks made of painted canvas stretched over a wooden frame.

After a few minutes, she became vaguely aware of assorted actors and stagehands and musicians trying to comfort her, and also of Rafa and Nick shouting at each other.

“You never fucking told me not to mention that Paris was your ex!” Nick yelled.

“She’s not my ex, that’s the thing!” Rafa’s deep voice seemed to shake the rafters.

“How the hell is she not your ex when you were fucking married?!” Nick retorted.

“Hey! Can you two have this discussion outside?” Lubomir broke in. “We have work to do in here.”

“I can’t leave. I’m guarding everyone,” Rafa protested.

The silver-haired woman cleared her throat. “Nick, Manuel, let’s go. We can sort this out at some better time and place.”

Nick’s green eyes flashed angrily, but he acquiesced. “Fine. Me and Manuel can go hunting, like we planned.”

Manuel dragged his feet as Nick and the silver-haired woman started to hustle him out the door.

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