The Billionaires: The Bosses by Calista Fox

Author:Calista Fox [Fox, Calista]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Published: 2017-09-04T18:30:00+00:00

TWELVE

“You did not say that!” Jewel erupted—thankfully before taking a sip of wine.

“Yep. Then I just slipped from the limo and strode off. As though I didn’t have a care in the world.”

Bayli had played it cool with Christian on Monday afternoon. Unfortunately, her insides had been a rioting mess as she’d briskly wound her way through foot traffic on the sidewalk, wondering if he was going to come after her and foil her little power play.

Though instinct had told her that he would understand she’d needed to bring the ball into her court. Not that it fully and truly was there—she knew damn well two men of Christian’s and Rory’s influence and experience were the ones in control. But Bayli needed to possess some of it herself. So she’d made the split-second executive decision not to give Christian exactly what he’d wanted from her in the back of that limo.

If she was going to run with the big dogs, she was going to have to get her ass off the porch and go for it.

Which reminded her …

“Hey,” she said as Jewel did a quick survey of the apartment and nodded encouragingly, good friend that she was. “Can I ask you some questions about your relationship with Rogen and Vin? They might be a bit delicate.… Just a heads-up.”

“Sure.” Jewel was a statuesque blonde who’d worked as a Senior Vice President of Acquisitions for her family’s empire before she dove into her own project of building an inn and winery in River Cross. She inspected the large floral arrangement in the center of the glass-topped table with the thick scrolled wrought-iron legs in the corner. “This is so pretty.” Her gaze swept over the entire place and she added, “Really, Bay. It’s all so pretty, what you’ve done with the place. I was a little worried when you first moved in.”

“Liar. You were a lot worried.”

“That’s because I love you.”

“I love you, too. Now…” Bay took a long sip of the merlot she’d uncorked for Jewel’s surprise visit on Wednesday evening—the very bottle she’d intended to take to Phillip and Colin’s dinner party. “I seem to have found myself in the extremely fortuitous position of having two men who are close friends and accustomed to sharing women find me…”

Jewel’s brow jerked up. “Worthy of sharing?”

“Yes.”

Jewel set her glass on the small coffee table in front of the love seat, then grabbed Bayli’s hand and pulled her over to sit. “From one lucky girl to another, let me just say—”

“Wait.” Bayli took another deep sip before setting her glass next to Jewel’s. “I’m not a lucky girl yet. Well, in many respects, yes. But not in that ultimate way you’re thinking of. We haven’t done it yet. I mean we have. Just not—”

“All together. The three of you. At one time.”

“At one time.” Bayli reached for her wine and swallowed down another big gulp. Not exactly classy, but hell … she was dealing with some heavy shit here.

Jewel rested a

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