Masters for Life by Ginger Voight

Author:Ginger Voight
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: romance
ISBN: 2940152401035
Publisher: Ginger Voight
Published: 2015-10-29T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

I wasn’t sure if they even heard the gasp elicited by her answer, but for a full second I couldn’t say a word. I could barely breathe. In that one sentence, she had confirmed everything that I knew Devlin never would. I knew in that moment that Suzanne Everhart was Devlin’s first client, the one who had screwed him over and screwed Darcy over. She was the one who had strung him along, making all her grand promises. Because of her, he couldn’t fully trust anything I might promise.

“I’ve heard that before. From someone a lot richer than you.”

She owned a casino, which I was pretty sure made quite a bit more money than Cabot’s.

And from the way Devlin reacted when he had to face her, I was sure there was nothing but animosity left between them. From what little I knew about his past, I knew that his resentment, his anger, could only mean one thing. He hated her for what she had done to him, and to his sister.

“So in she rode in on her diamond-studded white stallion, promising to fix all of our problems. Darcy believed her. I believed her. We put all our eggs in her basket because we bought her sweet load of bullshit, which she hid behind the smile of a friend, the charitable heart of a benevolent benefactor. A lover. It was all an act, Coralie. Part of the fantasy. Her fantasy.”

I turned back to Suzanne, who spoke with a faint accent, the telltale hint of a Georgia lilt. This was a southern girl who likely came from old Southern money, who likely used charm to get exactly what she wanted. And I could tell by the way her eyes scoped over the hardened body of my husband that she still wanted Devlin.

“You certainly don’t have to sell me on Devlin’s qualities,” I smiled. “I think he’s exceptional, otherwise I wouldn’t have married him.”

I watched her eyes narrow as she stared at me. She got the hands-off, trespassers-shot-on-sight message loud and clear. “You are a lucky woman,” she purred.

“Indeed,” I said. “I can’t wait to see what the future has in store for us. With Darcy’s designs, we can’t lose. That will free up some time so that I can ultimately stay home with our children. You know how much family means to Dev,” I added, sweet as sugar.

Her smile widened, but it didn’t quite meet her eyes. I had made it clear that I wasn’t just any woman; I was Coralie Masters, Devlin’s wife. I held the ultimate ace up my sleeve. I was the only one on the planet who could stake a claim to his future, no matter how many vivacious, beautiful women had marked him as their territory in the past.

I won. He was mine.

It made me empathize a lot more with how angry Devlin got when we returned from Vegas, and Oliver manhandled me to stake his claim about two weeks too late. When you have something special, you hold onto it.

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