Untouchable: A Billionaire on the Run Romance by Kira Blakely

Author:Kira Blakely [Blakely, Kira]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: AG Media, LLC
Published: 2017-11-03T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 5

Blake

I know she’s gun-shy, and that’s fine. I’m trigger-happy…

I wake up the same way I went to sleep: glaring at the ceiling.

Someone is knocking on my door. I didn’t sleep well enough to start a new day yet. For Christ’s sake, the last vestiges of my nightmare are still clinging to me. There’d been an unshakable cloud of unmanned studio cameras following me through the streets. If I slammed a door and locked it, one would float through an open window. There was no escaping them.

“Blake?” Miles’ voice bleeds through my bedroom door. “Did you already leave your breakfast order with Felipe?”

“No,” I call back.

“May I come in?”

“Not yet. Tell Felipe I want a sausage and pancake sandwich.”

“Are you being serious?” Miles wonders.

“Yes. Do it. I need to sink my teeth into something juicy.”

Miles departs, and I rise for twenty minutes of yoga. Maybe a few downward dogs and sun salutations will rinse this feeling out of my hair.

How did last night start somewhere like that fountain, with my tongue caressing Roxanne’s and my hand slid between her thighs, and end up somewhere like those trailers, with her cowering behind steely-eyed Candace?

Her words echo back to me as I flow into a tree pose and hold for a few minutes, breath steady.

“I do have the authority to tell you to leave one of my girls alone.”

My jaw clenches, even as I hold the tree pose with immaculate balance.

Yoga can’t fix everything.

Candace can’t just tell me what to do. I’m not that kind of guy, and I never have been.

One of her girls, she called her. Like she isn’t a free woman.

Roxanne wants me. I know she does. She was lying to Candace last night. She’s afraid she’ll lose her job, and she doesn’t expect anyone else to take care of her. But that kiss at the fountain was no lie. The way she looks at me is no lie.

Someone knocks at the door, and my head whips to glare in that direction. I’m just prepared for today to be a bad day.

“What?” I snap.

“I brought your riding attire,” Miles informs me hesitantly. “The film crew downstairs requests that you join them in the gardens in an hour. They asked that I remind you that your date is with Shannon, the secretary from Illinois.” I correct his pronunciation, and he thanks me. “She loves horses, and this is the horseback riding episode. You’ll show her the grounds and later enjoy the private box at a race. It should be lovely.” There’s a pause, and then, “May I come in, sir?”

Damn. I suppose I can’t hide from this arrangement all day, can I?

“Of course, Miles.”

The other man observes as I go through my morning routine, but his expression is one of concern.

“Are you all right?”

“Yes. No. Last night, I kissed one of the girls.”

“Oh? Was it the secretary from Illinois?”

“The girl in the crew, with the dark hair. The one I met at a party a few years ago.”

“Oh, Blake,” he says, as if he’s disappointed, and I glare at Miles.

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