The Last Affair--A Hot Billionaire Workplace Romance by A.C. Arthur

Author:A.C. Arthur
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-12-16T19:31:33+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

HAVING DINNER IN her room wasn’t running. It didn’t mean that she was in the midst of a situation she couldn’t control. But Kelli’s recognition of Maurice and them being seen together so much this weekend had her feeling cautious. When she’d suggested a quiet dinner tonight after last night’s interlude, Maurice hadn’t pushed the point.

“You’re really not afraid of anything the media says, are you?”

Maurice sat across from her at the small table by the window. He’d changed out of the gray polo shirt he’d been wearing earlier and now wore a black T-shirt that fit tightly against his muscled chest. She hadn’t expected him to go to his room before dinner and show up at her door with his duffel bag in one hand. His only comment before walking around her and into the room had been that it was pointless to keep going back and forth. He was right.

After taking another swig from the bottled beer he’d ordered, he lowered it to the table and sat back in the chair. “I can’t control the media.”

“But you can control what you feed them.” Why this was bothering her this weekend, when it hadn’t in the years that she’d known him, Desta had no clue. Maybe because now she was attached to him in more than a work capacity. Just like she’d been attached to Gordon. Once the media had learned of his injury they’d dogged him unmercifully and when his anger about being cut from the team began to spill over into brawls at the club and rumored affairs, she’d been looped right into the headlines.

Maurice shrugged, lifted his hands up in exasperation and then let them fall to his lap. “What am I feeding them? Do I call or email them every day with a story?”

His mood had been on the edge of agitation since the massage that had been meant to relax them. Part of that was probably her fault since she’d dropped the details of her messy past on him, but she hadn’t felt like dodging his questions about her family again. That was the first time she’d told anyone the truth about what had happened in Denver.

“No. But every time you step out of your house, you know they’re watching you. Every date you pick up and take to a restaurant, a Broadway show, a Knicks game and then to a hotel, you know they’re right there taking notes. So basically, you’re giving them all this ammunition to write stories about you.”

“And what would you suggest I do? Not go on dates? Stay locked up in my house?” He sucked in a breath, holding his lips together tightly before letting it out on a whoosh. “I learned a long time ago that I can’t control everything, that sometimes things just happen—and I adjusted my life accordingly. That’s the extent of any changing I plan to do for the sake of anyone else.” Dragging a hand down his face, he pushed back from the table and stood.

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