Sapphire Beautiful by Ren Monterrey

Author:Ren Monterrey [Monterrey, Ren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 25849632
Publisher: Short on Time Books
Published: 2015-07-16T16:00:00+00:00

Seven

Lucy catches me in the hallway on the way to my office. “He’s here.”

“Who’s here?”

My mind is still reeling from the events of last night. I’m still having a hard time coming to terms with everything that happened with Dante. I had the best sex in my life with a twenty-two-year old who considers me his. And that I’m wearing his necklace to prove it.

“The guy,” she says. “Silver Spoon. The one who was awarded the prestigious graduate research fellowship that his daddy bought and paid for.”

The venom in her voice makes it clear that she will probably never have any respect for our new research fellow. Not that I blame her. She was the first person in her family to go to college, let alone earn a doctoral degree. She worked her ass off holding three jobs while she put herself through school. I can understand her resentment towards someone who seems to have had everything just handed to him on a silver platter.

“That’s really what you’re going to call our research fellow? Silver Spoon?”

She shrugs. “It’s better than asshole.”

“What is that?” Her eagle eye spots the sapphire pendant around my neck. She lifts it from my chest and gets close enough to inspect it. “A beautiful sapphire surrounded by some rather significant diamonds. Where’d you get the money for something like that?”

She raises a thick dark eyebrow and stares at me waiting for an answer.

“I didn’t buy it.” There’s no way I can lie to Lucy. She’s much too intuitive for that. She can spot a lie before it even crosses someone’s lips. She’s like a living, breathing lie detector.

“Then where did it come from?” she probes.

I gulp. How am I ever going to be able to explain my arrangement to her?

“Are you dating someone?” Her eyes are planted firmly on mine.

“Not exactly.”

She looks down the hallway to make sure no one is around. “Are you screwing around? Is he married?” Then she gasps. “Are you screwing around with Andrew?”

I quickly shake my head. “No, I’m definitely not screwing around with Andrew. And he’s not married. He’s a little bit younger so it’s complicated.”

“You’re not old, so how much younger could he possibly be?”

I can feel my face getting hot. I just hope I’m not blushing. “A decade.”

Her eyes grow wide. “Is he a student?”

I shake my head. “No. I wouldn’t do that. Not after everything that happened with Doug. And I’m applying for tenure this year.”

“Well if a twenty-two-year-old can afford to buy you a necklace like that he must have a really good job.”

I nod because I’m not sure what else to say. There’s no way I want her to know that he was born into one of the wealthiest families in the country.

“Silver Spoon is meeting with the Dean. Can you believe it? When has a brand new graduate student ever scored a meeting with the Dean? I can’t even get a meeting with the Dean and I’m a tenured faculty member.”

“How are my favorite colleagues doing today,” Andrew asks as he passes us in the hallway.

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