Scot Appeal by Melissa Blue

Author:Melissa Blue [Blue, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Melissa Blue

7

Ivy positioned her phone over the opened velvet boxed that she'd laid out on her comforter. Her hands trembled, ensuring the picture would come out blurry. Really, calm had left the building. Her phone made the artificial snapshot sound. Yep. Blurry shot.

Still she pressed send and then placed the phone back up to her ear. “Did you get it?”

Adeline huffed. “Technology is awesome and fast, but not that fast. Describe it to me.”

Ivy pulled a hand through her hair. “Details won't do it justice. I can only say if I took it to a pawn shop, I could probably pay off Sallie Mae.”

“So he's trying to get into your pants with gifts?”

Grateful her sister couldn't see the guilt scrunching her face, Ivy shifted on her mattress. She might have left out the fact she'd had sex with Marcus. She'd known him for a little over a week and given him The Nookie. How exactly did one confess that? I waited twenty-eight years to find the right man and a Scottish rogue breathed in my direction...Yeah.

Ivy closed her eyes. “You'd have to meet him to get it.”

“Get what?”

“Him.”

“And you get him?” Confusion and disbelief laced the simple question.

Ivy pursed her lips. Did she know, know Marcus? She wouldn't stake money on it, but she knew more about him than any man she dated. That included Jerome whom she dated for a year and a half. She'd loved him, loved his family more—a big reason why they didn't last—but the core of him didn't resonate inside her. Marcus...she got.

Ivy said, “Enough to know that—”

“Holy shit!”

No explanation needed. Her sister had received the picture. “I know! What am I supposed to do with this?”

“Are those diamonds?”

She glanced down at the necklace. In the scheme of things it wasn't extravagant. A single platinum strand embedded with diamonds. The mid-afternoon light made the gems sparkle with such clarity that she didn't doubt each and every one was the real deal.

Fat gaudy stones that whispered, “Sallie Mae. Sallie Mae. We could pay off Sallie Mae.” Well Ivy could if she was mercenary, and she only felt that way after she paid bills at the beginning of the month.

It said enough though her sister continued to sputter on the end of the line. “What does he do for a living?” Adeline asked.

Another secret Ivy had chosen to keep from her sister. She owed Marcus no loyalty, especially after he'd acted like a dick to her the day before. Yet telling Adeline he was the former CEO of Scotland International and had his sights on Bain Corp seemed...skeevy. She could, and would, encourage her sister to search for a new place of employment—advice her sister probably didn't need stated. Corporations that went under new management tended to cut employees to protect the bottom line. A shuffle her sister knew well. It's how Addy ended up at Bain. Though Adeline had lingered much lower on the totem pole then.

Still Ivy’s stomach fluttered when she told the half-truth, “Clearly he wasn't a pauper before he turned into a handyman.

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