The Agency by D.J. Manly

Author:D.J. Manly [Manly, D.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Liquid Silver Books
Published: 2011-12-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

When Scott opened his eyes, Amanda was climbing out of the swimming pool. He stifled a yawn and reached over for a folding towel that was sitting beside him and handed it to her. “Finally,” she said, removing her bathing cap and rubbing her arms and chest with the towel. She reached for the short terry robe that she usually threw over her bathing suit, and told Clarissa, who was standing by, that she wanted a Diet Coke.

“Where is everyone?” Scott inquired, squinting at his watch. It was almost five.

“Well, Hunter took one of the cars a few hours ago, saying he needed to pick up some items at the drugstore. I have no idea where Ramsay is. My brother and Chase took off somewhere, said they’d be back for dinner. They were in the bedroom until two o’clock.”

“Ah, nothing like a bit of jealousy to stir the juices,” Scott laughed, glancing at the maid who had reappeared with Amanda’s Diet Coke. “Bring me a whiskey on the rocks,” he said.

Amanda glanced at him as Clarissa went into the house to get his drink. “Okay, since we’re alone for awhile, it’s time for a talk.”

“Amanda,” he groaned, rolling his head back and forth against the back of the chair.

“Scott,” she said severely. “I want to know what happened between you and Ciel.”

Clarissa came back with the drink. When she disappeared, Amanda took it out of his hands and put it aside. “Enough drinking. You’ve been drinking since you got here. I know you’re in pain. I know you. When Ciel left—when you told me you loved him, you said it was either Ciel, or the bottle. Nothing’s changed.”

Scott put his hand to his forehead.

“Obviously you still love him.”

“I hate him,” Scott said between clenched teeth. “I hate him for making me love him like this.”

Amanda gripped his forearm. “Did you walk out on him?”

“He doesn’t love me.”

“Are you sure?”

“I don’t think he ever did.”

“Scott, that’s not true. I saw his face the night he left. He was a man in torment. I can’t believe he stopped loving you. What changed?”

“There was someone else.”

“He cheated on you?”

“I … I don’t know.”

“What do you mean, you don’t know?”

“He could have; at least, I accused him of doing just that.” He looked at Amanda.

“Did he deny it?”

“Of course he did. We hadn’t had sex in weeks. I wouldn’t have blamed him if … yes, I would, I would have blamed him. I wanted to kill him.”

“Why did you stop having sex?”

“We started fighting.”

“About?” Amanda sipped her Coke. She took pity on Scott suddenly, and passed him his whiskey. “But no more tonight.”

He nodded and took the glass from her hand.

“What did you fight about? You taking your clothes off at that club? I don’t blame him really. It’s a gay strip club, isn’t it?”

“Yeah.”

“That’s worse. Why did you do it?”

“I told you. We needed money and…”

“You should have to come to me.”

“No, Amanda. We had to make it on our own. Ciel would have never allowed that.

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