Blue Room Confidentials: Vol. 3 by Kailin Gow

Author:Kailin Gow [Gow, Kailin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B01CHTETY4
Goodreads: 29413835
Publisher: Sparklesoup.com
Published: 2016-03-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

Staci

There’s no getting out of it. I thought I was free of the Blue Room. Discovering my inheritance as a Tannenbaum and getting engaged to Terrence was supposed to start a new life for me, one where I wasn’t stuck in my old haunts. But somehow here I am again, me and Terrence and Xander, just like old times, trying to solve another mystery – the whereabouts of two people who could be our closest allies – or our darkest foes. We still have no way of knowing. Still, Terrence does his best to try to keep things calm, normal. Businesslike, even. It’s odd, considering how much shit we’ve been through over the past few hours, but somehow the “board room meeting” approach works. It keeps things feeling like we’ve got a semblance of normalcy in our lives. Even if “bring back our kidnapped PI” isn’t exactly common on board room agendas. Terrence and I pass a sleepless night together back at the house. Normally we have sex every single night – our high sex drives are one of the things that make us so compatible, usually – but tonight we don’t do anything but cuddle. We’re both too stressed, too tired, too worn out, too exhausted, for that.

The next morning we arrive at 10 am sharp. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Terrence early for anything in his life. That’s how I know he’s serious about this – and how bad things have gotten. We’re in the hotel by 9:55; by 10 we’re sitting at the boardroom, bleary-eyed, exhausted. I don’t think any of us has gotten a good night’s sleep tonight. Xander is sitting at the head of the table, dressed in one of those perfectly tailored business suits of his, one of the ones that screams I’ve got as much money as I could ever need – and twice as much taste – one of the sexy-as-anything suits that made me fall for him in the first place. I bite my lip and try not to look at him. I can’t let myself get distracted by desire right now, not after everything that’s happened. I can’t let myself want Xander, not after all that has happened between us. I’ve hurt him enough, I think. The best thing, the only thing, to do is to let him go.

Still, when I turn my seat and catch a glimpse of Terrence sitting beside me, I’m reassured that I made the right decision. My heart still palpitates so strongly in my chest every time I see him. He’s not wearing a business suit but what might be known as “smart casual” – finely tailored blue trousers and a pale blue shirt, open-neck, no tie. The look brings out his eyes, and makes me catch my breath. He looks every inch the sexy cocky playboy I first met when I first came to the Blue Room, the one I couldn’t resist, no matter how much I wanted to. A playboy who could have – and did have – any and every girl he wanted.

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