Seduced by Stratton (The English Brothers Book 4) by Katy Regnery

Author:Katy Regnery [Regnery, Katy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Katharine Gilliam Regnery
Published: 2014-11-04T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

Two weeks later, Stratton stood in the office kitchenette holding a cup of coffee when Fitz came up behind him.

“Do you know you’ve been stirring that coffee for over ten minutes?”

“What?”

“Yeah,” said Fitz, stepping around his brother to make a cup for himself. “I passed you standing here on my way to Barrett’s office ten minutes ago.”

“What are you doing, timing me?”

Fitz looked up quickly, surprised by Stratton’s ornery tone. “No. I just noticed.”

“Don’t you have more important things to do than keeping track of my coffee breaks?”

Without waiting for an answer, Stratton turned on his heel and exited the kitchen, heading back down the hall. He raised the mug to his lips and grimaced—the coffee was cool, damn it.

“No. You know what? That’s not going to fly with me,” said Fitz from behind him, following Stratton into his office and closing the door behind them. “Let’s have it. What’s up with you?”

Stratton headed for his desk, sitting down in the high-backed brown leather chair and looking at his brother. “What? You don’t need to watchdog my coffee breaks, Fitz.”

Fitz set his mug on Stratton’s desk before taking a seat in the guest chair across from him. “It’s so strange, because my brother Stratton has an almost nonexistent amount of bullshit in his personality. And now suddenly his bullshit is off the charts. So, color me confused, but . . .”

“But?”

“Why don’t you tell me what’s going on?”

“Going on?”

“Come on, Strat. You’re distracted. You’re pissed off. You’re acting weird . . . er than usual. Last time one of my brothers acted like this much of a douche, it was Barrett, and Emily was making him crazy.”

“You conveniently forget what a bed of roses you were the night you beat up Daisy’s fake fiancé.”

Fitz chuckled lightly. “Yeah. True enough. I was.”

“How’s she doing?” asked Stratton.

“Gorgeous. She’s almost seventeen weeks. Can you believe it? Three more weeks and we find out the sex.”

Playing with a paper clip on his desk, and as casually as possible, Stratton asked, “Did you and Barrett go to Mulligan’s last night?”

“Yep. Of course. We were up to eighty minutes before we thought this asshole was hitting on them, and left the bar to get rid of him.” Fitz chuckled. “Turned out it was just Valeria’s new boyfriend.”

Stratton’s fingers stilled as his blood went cold. His eyes cut to Fitz with a death glare, his nostrils flaring and heart racing.

“What did you say?”

“What the hell, Strat?”

Stratton held up a finger and shook his head, eyes glued to Fitz’s. “Val has a boyfriend?”

“Yeah,” said Fitz, speaking in a bewildered voice. “Joe. Uh, Joe Conchetta? Yeah, I think that’s his name. He’s an accountant. Over at Mercer & May. Seemed like a decent guy. What’s—um, what’s up with you, man? You’re freaking me out.”

Halfway through Fitz’s description of Joe-fucking-Conchetta, Stratton had stood and put his back to his brother, facing the windows that looked over the Schuylkill River with his hands on his hips. His fingers dug painfully into his flesh through his shirt as he clenched his jaw.

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