Harlequin Special Edition September 2016, Box Set 1 of 2 by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488022968
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

“What do you mean, he isn’t going to apologize? He has to apologize.”

Sophia’s tantrum was directed at her publicist, but it was loud enough that Grace feared Alex could hear it through the walls and over the sound of running water in his shower.

“Don’t yell at Martina.” The words were out before Grace thought. Of course, Sophia would now do the opposite. It was rapidly becoming clear that Sophia was acting more like Deezee than ever, now that he’d cheated on her. Grace was baffled.

On cue, Sophia shouted, “I’ll speak however I goddamned please.”

Martina pointed at Sophia with her stylus. “Not when you are anywhere that anyone could possibly hit the record button on their cell phone. Your boyfriend could never get that through his thick head, and I’m washing my hands of him. You, I expect more from.”

“You’re firing Deezee?” Sophia was so aghast, she only seemed to have enough air to whisper.

“I fired him this morning. I don’t keep clients that refuse my advice.”

Sophia sat up a little straighter and set her phone aside.

Grace tried to keep a neutral expression on her face, a poker face like Alex, hoping no one could see how irritated she was with Martina’s tactics. The publicist’s ability to intimidate Sophia was useful, in its way. She’d kept Sophia from completely committing career suicide several times during the past three months, but Grace still didn’t trust Martina.

Martina was the reason that Sophia had met Deezee this winter. Sophia and Grace had taken a week off in Telluride, a ski resort centered on a tiny Colorado mining town that was a haven for billionaires and A-list celebrities, one of whom had hired DJ Deezee Kalm to set up a rave in an old warehouse. Grace hadn’t been enthralled by the neon lights and electronic dance music, so she’d stayed off the dance floor. So had Martina.

Within half an hour, Martina had found out for whom Grace was a personal assistant. The rest was history. Martina had introduced Sophia to the DJ that night, while he was in all his glory, standing on a stage and controlling a crowd with music. Martina had arranged for them to have an intimate lunch for two the next day in an excruciatingly expensive man-made snow cave. It had been money well spent. Now Martina was Sophia Jackson’s publicist, as well.

That was Hollywood. Considering the way Grace had been befriended for an introduction and Deezee had practically been prostituted in order to achieve that goal, being Hollywood was awfully close to being Machiavellian.

“Couldn’t you have released his apology before you fired him?” Sophia asked.

“Darling, when I fire a man, I refuse to spend another moment on him.”

Grace wanted to set the record straight. As his publicist, Martina couldn’t have fired Deezee: she was his employee. Martina might have decided not to work for him anymore, but that was quitting, and she’d quit when her client needed her most.

The firing verbiage worked on Sophia, though. She was

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