The Temptation: An Office Romance (Kings of Ruin) by L Knight

Author:L Knight [Knight, L]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-09-04T18:30:00+00:00

Eden

“Hey, Mom.”

“Hi, my sweet baby. How are you? How is the job?”

I smile at the phone, which is on the bed in the room I haven’t used since the first night in this apartment. I’m folding my clothes and putting them away in drawers while I wait for Ryker to come home. He had a late meeting with some bigwig tech giant so I left him to it. It had been a week since we got together and I’ve never felt more fulfilled or happy. “I’m great, and the job is going really well.”

“Good. Have you made any new friends?”

“A few yes, but pretty much everyone is lovely. I made friends with a lady called Sally who has two sons and just got engaged. She wants me to be her maid of honor.”

“That’s wonderful, Eden. I’m so proud of you.”

I knew she was, my parents were effusive with their love for us and each other. “How’s Dad?”

“Oh you know, your Dad won’t admit that his hip gives him trouble every time he rides the Harley but other than that, he’s the same.”

“I miss you guys.”

“Oh, baby, we miss you too. Have you heard from that ex of yours?”

I wrinkled my nose at the mention of Beau. “No, thank goodness.”

“He was a bad apple.”

“He was, but not all men are like him.”

If they even knew the half of it, they would’ve driven down and had some of my father’s shadier friends deal with him, but I didn’t want parents involved and, thanks to Ryker, I was through with that part of my life for good.

“No, but rich men are.”

My mother didn’t trust rich people. She’d been on the receiving end of too much bad behavior from those with money as she called it, when her mother worked cleaning jobs.

“Well, Beau wasn’t rich. He only pretended to be rich.”

“All the same.”

“That’s a little unfair, don’t you think? If everyone judged you for being a biker’s wife or Daddy for being a biker, would you have half the clients you do?”

“Maybe not, but rich men are a different breed.”

“Well, they aren’t all bad.”

The line went silent for a beat. “Eden Sager, have you met a man?”

“No. Yes. Maybe.”

“Well, which is it?”

“It’s new.”

“And he’s rich?”

God, how did I even begin to explain how rich Ryker was or even who he was. Yet I’d always been honest with my parents until the nightmare with Beau and I didn’t want to start something new by lying to my family. “He has more money than a Saudi Prince.”

“I see.”

“That’s not all.”

“Tell me.”

“He’s kind of my boss.”

“What!”

I yanked the phone away from my ear as she shrieked the last word. “Jeez, Mom, I need new eardrums.”

“You’re messing around with your boss? Oh, Eden, is he forcing himself on you?”

“God, no. Ryker is a good man. He’d never do that.”

“Ryker, you say?”

I knew she’d be googling the shit out of him the second we hung up so I told her all about him. Leaving out certain aspects, like the

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