Raise Your Game_A Stand-Alone Romantic Comedy by Cassia Leo

Author:Cassia Leo [Leo, Cassia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gloss Publishing LLC
Published: 2018-11-10T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

SOPHIE

I’m about to push my way through the glass doors, when I realize I’m not dressed appropriately to lounge poolside with my new best friend. I spin around and immediately return to our suite, where I change into my yellow bikini. Grabbing a robe off the hook in the bathroom, I wrap it around myself and slip my feet into some flip-flops before I rush back downstairs to the lobby.

As I pass the entrance to the hotel bar, I glance inside to see if I can glimpse Logan and his brother. I am stopped in my tracks at the site of my fake husband sitting at a table with his real sister-in-law, whose name I can’t recall at the moment because my heart is suddenly galloping so loudly I can hardly hear my thoughts. Logan is leaned over the table with her hand clasped in his.

Last night, Kitty spotted him having drinks with some bikini babes at the neighboring hotel’s beach bar. He claims it was innocent, but now this. Am I supposed to believe this is also innocent? He said he was having lunch with his brother. This proves he’s a big, fat liar.

But I already knew that, so why am I so upset?

I take a few deep breaths as I start toward the exit again. I can’t allow Logan’s inability to tell the truth distract me from what I have to do today. Then again, if he’s not being truthful with me about this, it’s possible he wasn’t being truthful when he promised he would make sure that, no matter what happens at the retreat, I will be taken care of.

I suddenly have a flashback to the moment Brady offered me an advance on my pay. He claimed others in our department had taken payday advances before and that no suspicion would be raised. He promised if the transaction was flagged for review, he would take the full blame.

At the disciplinary review hearing, Brady turned out not to be as valuable to Close-Up magazine as he assumed he was. He leveled the blame equally between us, which he claimed he had to do to save both our jobs. I don’t doubt Brady’s integrity, but living the past couple years with this disciplinary hatchet hanging over my head has wreaked havoc on my stress levels.

Is Logan trying to cozy up to his sister-in-law to undercut his brother’s attempts to sabotage us, or is he trying to work both sides the way Brady was?

I head through the glass doors and down the steps to the pool area.

Swiping a piña colada off a waiter’s tray on the way there. “Put it on room 1210. Sorry!” I shout my apology at him as I continue toward Kitty.

I take a seat in the padded lounge chair next to her, and I’m about to speak up when the waiter I just stole a drink from arrives. “I said I was sorry. You can put it on room 1210. Is it really that big of a deal?”

The waiter clears his throat and addresses Kitty instead of me.

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