The VIP Doubles Down (Wager of Hearts Book 3) by Nancy Herkness

Author:Nancy Herkness [Herkness, Nancy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781477824030
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Published: 2017-04-18T05:00:00+00:00

Allie raced up the front steps of Gavin’s house at 7:10. She’d refused a ride from Jaros, and the subway had been fouled up. Ludmilla answered the door without her usual cheerful smile. “Mr. Gavin not here,” she said.

“Not here?” He’d been adamant about her returning for dinner.

“Something happen. You talk to Mr. Hugh.” Ludmilla led her to a comfortable, masculine den where the actor stood by the window, drinking a beer.

He turned, and Allie again experienced that weird shock of seeing a fictional character in the flesh. Once she got past the Julianness of him, she saw that Hugh appeared even more worried than Ludmilla did.

“I’m afraid Gavin’s gone,” he said.

“So I heard.” Allie sat in a wing chair. She was darned if she was going to stand just because Hugh was. “Where?”

“Probably to the Bellwether Club. That seems to be his bolt-hole these days. Although no one knows with certainty. He just walked out of the house without a word.” Hugh swallowed the rest of his beer in one gulp. “It’s my fault, I’m afraid. I brought him bad news.”

“What kind of bad news?”

Hugh walked over to the chair opposite hers with the same coiled energy he projected as the super spy. Dropping into it, he swiped up another bottle of beer from the coffee table. “All the actors who were signed for the next Julian Best movie were released from their contracts today. That means the producers have decided there won’t be another movie in the foreseeable future.”

So they’d given up on Gavin just as his creativity seemed to be returning. He would feel that like a physical blow. “He’d just started to expand the Christmas novella into a full-length novel.” Allie was furious on his behalf. “He must be devastated.”

Hugh took another swallow of beer. “He’s not alone in that.”

Allie stood up and paced to the fireplace and back, unable to sit still when she was so concerned about Gavin. He would plunge back into that dark void again, back to the place where he had no control over his world. She couldn’t let that happen. She turned to Hugh. “Where’s the Bellwether Club?”

“You can’t get in there. It’s for billionaires only, and they guard their privacy fiercely.”

“Can’t Gavin let me in the club?”

“He’s gone off to lick his wounds alone, so he might not be receptive to that.”

“I have to try. Do you know where the club is?”

“No, but Jaros does.”

Allie headed for the door. “I’ll text Gavin when I get there.”

“What if he refuses to see you?”

“I’ll sit on the front steps of the Bellwether Club until he changes his mind.”

“I owe you an apology,” Hugh said from behind her. “You’re a better friend to him than I.”

Ludmilla thought the plan was a good one, so Allie was quickly ensconced in the back of the Bentley en route to Gavin’s club.

Allie stared at her phone, trying to figure out what words would make him agree to see her. Finally, she typed, Are you at the Bellwether Club? Ludmilla is worried.

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