Twins for Christmas by Layla Valentine

Author:Layla Valentine
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2019-10-23T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Adam

January

The New Year had started, but all I could think about was Christmas. Specifically, how I’d ruined everything.

It was still so hard to believe how badly I’d handled the situation. Isla was hurt, and I’d offered to pay her off like she was a business partner with whom I was severing a contract. It was amazing that she didn’t smash the glass she’d been drinking from over my head. If she had, I’d have probably accepted it as something I’d deserved.

Hell, maybe it would’ve knocked some sense into me.

But what else could I have done? My reckless behavior had put the both of us in a bad situation, one that required me to act in a way that I could charitably describe as “regrettable.” If I hadn’t told her what my situation had been, the consequences could’ve been terrible for us both.

Truth be told, I was only really worried about Isla. If the board found out what had happened, there would be consequences, sure. But they would be consequences that I earned by going against our agreement. Isla, on the other hand, didn’t know what she was getting into. Anything that happened to her would be entirely on me, and I wasn’t about to have that.

I sipped my coffee, long since gone lukewarm, as I gazed out of my office window onto the city. It was the first day back from the holiday break, and I’d just gotten word that Edward had arrived. We’d only spoken in terse text messages since my trip to Brazil, and I’d gotten the impression that whatever he wanted to say, he wanted to say it in person.

Normally, he would’ve come right back for business matters. But he’d been abroad on holiday with his family. And more than that, I knew Edward well enough to know that when he felt a matter was of grave importance, he always wanted to be there in person to deal with it. The man never jumped on the technology bandwagon—only face-to-face would do for him.

I pushed thoughts of Edward and the board out of my mind only for Isla, as she’d done so many times over the last few days, to take their place. It was impossible to stop thinking about her, impossible to stop thinking of her laugh, her smile, her personality. And the fact that I’d ruined everything between us only made the memory more bitter.

It was the old thing about how trying to make yourself not think of something only made you want to think about it more. But with Isla, I knew it wasn’t just some quirk of the mind. It was the fact that I…felt things for her, things that I hadn’t felt for a woman in a long time, maybe ever. And it had all come on so suddenly. One moment I’d been standing in the elevator ready to start another day of work, the next I was speaking to the most beautiful woman I’d ever seen in my life.

And only a few short days after that we were making love.

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