The Real Deal: A Dublin Nights Novel by Sahin Brittney

Author:Sahin, Brittney
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: EmKo Media, LLC
Published: 2019-11-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Holly

I looked around my brother’s gym as I draped my wool coat over my arm, careful not to trip in my heels.

“You can’t fight in that get-up.”

I looked to my left to find my brother’s best friend, Les, exiting the cage. His barrel chest was more muscular than I remembered when I’d made the tragic mistake of sleeping with him. He tossed his gloves onto a folding chair, his eyes moving over the length of my cream-colored wrap dress.

“Not gonna happen again,” I scolded in response to the slow journey of appreciation he’d taken of my legs before landing on the V-neck of my dress.

“I know, and would ya keep your voice down?” He patted the air. “Your brother is already in a shite mood. You want my blood all over the walls if he finds out?”

I contemplated a response but decided to get to the point. I was in a bad mood, too. “Where’s Adam?”

He jerked his thumb behind him toward the hall that led to Adam’s office.

Once outside his office, my purse vibrated before I could knock.

A text from Harrison.

Harrison: I’m coming back today instead. I’ll be at the office by 3.

Me: Everything okay?

Harrison: No. See you this afternoon.

“Grand,” I mumbled and deposited my mobile back into my Prada. “Adam, it’s me. Can I come in?” I set my coat and purse on the chair outside the office door.

“Go away,” he called out, his voice deeper than normal.

“We need to talk. Please.” I hated being in a fight with him, and I hadn’t been able to sleep last night thinking about how things ended before he left. I had to make it right. “Adam,” I said with a plea to my voice.

A minute later, the door opened, but it was Anna standing on the other side.

Oh, holy hell, they’d been having sex in his office, hadn’t they? And Les had known and decided it’d be great not to give me a heads-up first.

Anna tucked her strawberry blonde hair behind her ears and smiled before pulling me in for a hug. “I’ll give you two the room.”

I nodded and waited for her to leave, then shut the door and faced my brother.

He folded his arms across his chest and leaned back in the leather chair behind his desk. The angry draw of his lips into a tight line and the crease in his forehead were pretty damn good indicators he thought he had every right to be mad at me, not the other way around.

“You always have sex in here?” I deflected, hoping to ease the tension. No such luck. He didn’t move a muscle. Adam was far more stubborn than me, but he’d never admit it.

I kept my back flush to the door, reluctant to enter his office space. It was fairly small, with only a maple desk in front of the dark painted wall and a floor lamp off to the side.

There was nothing on his desk, not even a pen. Thinking back to the other times I’d been in his office, the desk had been empty then, too.

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