The Playboy by J. S. Cooper

Author:J. S. Cooper [Cooper, J. S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J. S. Cooper

The banging front door awoke me and I stretched against a sleepy Zach who was watching me with hooded eyes. “Oops, I guess I fell asleep.”

“I guess you did,” he said with a small smile and I wondered what he was thinking.

“I guess Alexa is back,” I said stupidly. “I wonder if Jackson is with her. Maybe they want to get brunch or something.”

“Hmm.”

Before I could say anything else, Alexa was opening my bedroom door and striding in. “You will never believe what I found out about Jackson Camden,” she said as she walked in and stopped, her eyes were wide and her hair was wild.

“Score, Piper. I knew you’d get Oracle Lion into the sack one of these days.”

Alexa grinned wickedly, though the smile didn’t reach her eyes and before Zach and I knew what was happening, she was snapping a photo of us with her phone, flash on and blinding us with its light.

“If times get hard again, this will be worth a pretty penny.” She winked at me before heading out of the room again.

I looked over at Zach with a small smile about to apologize for Alexa’s poor sense of humor, but all humor and affection had gone from his face. He looked at me stonily and I could feel his emotional and physical withdrawal from me.

“She’s just joking.” I made to stroke the side of his face, but he recoiled from me. “Zach, are you mad?” My eyes took in the veiled anger in his face. He shook his head and pulled away from me.

“Nope.” He looked at his watch in an exaggerated fashion and then reached down to his pants and pulled his phone out of his pocket, swiped a couple of times and appeared to be reading something. He glanced up at me with narrowed eyes and gave me a bitter smile. “Some writer, eh?”

“Excuse me, what?” I stared at him, feeling emptiness already fill me as he jumped up out of the bed.

“I have to go.” He pulled on his clothes quickly, typed something on his phone, and gave me one long last glance. “It’s been real. Thanks for the fun,” he said as he walked to the bedroom door. He stopped at the door and looked back at me with disdain, then took a leather wallet out of his pocket, opened it, and pulled out a stack of bills, which he threw onto the bed.

“That’s for you,” he said with a twist of his lips. Then he moved back toward the bed and stared down at a shocked me. “And if I see that photo of us in any tabloids, I will sue you for every penny you have.” And with that, he was gone. I sat on the bed in shock, wondering what the hell had just happened. He couldn’t have been that upset because of Alexa’s joke, could he? Granted, it had been in poor taste, but it had just been a joke.

“What the hell happened to Oracle?” Alexa walked into the room looking confused.

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