Guilty Pleasure by Taryn Leigh Taylor

Author:Taryn Leigh Taylor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-02T18:55:35+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

THE CONFESSION WOULDN’T compute in his brain.

“I installed the malware on Emma Mathison’s computer. She’d put in her notice. She was supposed to be gone. No one was supposed to notice anything before you—”

“Before I what?” he demanded.

“Before you stopped it. I knew you’d stop it.” There was a faraway look in her eyes, like she was somewhere else in that moment. “I never meant for this to happen.”

And just like that, everything slid into place. Wes shook his head at his own stupidity. “I should have known.” He scraped a hand down his face.

“I should have known that first day, when Max called us all into his office to tell us Whitfield Industries had been hacked. You gave yourself away.”

She looked so vulnerable then. So small in his old shirt, her long legs bare. He watched as her toes curled against the dark floor tiles, before she crossed her right foot over her left, her heel bouncing in time with her nerves.

“First, you jumped to Emma’s defense, even though she was the obvious suspect. Then you uncrossed and recrossed your legs. Which is your tell when you’re uncomfortable.” He stepped closer, and despite the two feet of distance between them, she pushed back against the counter.

She’d already uncrossed her legs, out of habit, and he saw the second she caught herself, the way her muscles tightened against the instinctual need to cross them again.

Wes cocked an eyebrow and took another step in her direction.

Vivienne’s breath picked up, as he placed his hands on the counter on either side of her and leaned close, so close that he could smell that alluring French perfume of hers, the embodiment of wine and tangled sheets and desire. Distinctly, deliciously Vivienne. Her tongue darted out to moisten her lips. “That doesn’t prove anything.” The protest was barely more than a whisper.

“And then you tucked your hair behind your left ear,” he told her, reaching up and doing it for her. The feel of her beneath his fingers, even a touch as innocuous as this, sent heat through him. “Which is your tell when you’re lying.”

She flinched at the word, but he didn’t stop.

“At the time, I didn’t know why, but now I get it.”

She curled away from him, hands still protecting her stomach, and it hurt him to see her like this, it did. But he had to know.

“What do they have on you?”

Her eyes snapped to his, wide with shock. “What?”

“You’re a lot of things, Vivienne. Brilliant, beautiful and ballsy as hell. But you do not have the computer skills to have done this to me on your own.”

Anger flared in her eyes and tightened her jaw. “You don’t know that. You have no idea what I’m capable of. You still think I’m that naive, wide-eyed girl who threw herself at you at a frat party. But I’m not, Wes. I’m not her. I haven’t been for a long time.”

Naive. Not a word he’d ever associated with her. She’d been optimistic, and determined and sexually explosive, but she’d never been naive.

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