Shopping for a CEO's Wife (Shopping for a Billionaire Book 12) by Julia Kent

Author:Julia Kent [Kent, Julia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-04-24T18:30:00+00:00

“Pssst.” I look up from my desk to see Carol’s disembodied head poking into my office at an angle. She’s bending around the door frame and my eyes are just bleary enough from too much screen time to have a surreal visual moment, head floating in midair.

I knew I watched that new Stephen King movie trailer a few too many times last night.

My heart races as I say, “What’s up?”

“Can I come in?”

“Uh oh. What’s wrong? Did Malinda screw up the field reports on the nail salon chain again?”

She shakes her head, walking toward me with a face full of mixed emotions. “Um, did you know you and Pam are on all the gossip sites?”

“You mean James’ stunt with the corporate wedding planner today? Mom and I met with Katie Gallagher at Grind It Fresh! to make a bunch of decisions, but James turned it into a photo session. I thought we made the photographer stop before he got a picture.”

“These don’t look professional to me. More like paparazzi photos.” She hands me her phone. Pictures of me with my mom, facing the plate glass window in the coffee shop, dot the website. Close-ups of Mom, of Spritzy, and of me.

With Katie’s giant wedding planner book between us.

“Anterdec CEO’s fiancée plans wedding with mother,” I read from the screen. “Could be worse.”

“Keep reading.”

I scroll down to find pictures of my mom with James. Mom and James at a cocktail party. Mom and James at some outdoor dog festival. Mom and James laughing together outside his Back Bay home.

Next headline: “But which wedding?”

“‘Which wedding’? Huh? What do they mean?”

“Keep reading,” Carol warns, watching me carefully.

“Sources say James McCormick and Pam Warrick are more than just future in-laws. Seen around town in a series of dates, sources speculate that Andrew McCormick and Amanda Warrick might not only be husband and wife soon: they may be stepbrother and stepsister if the romance between their parents continues to heat up.”

I scream.

Wouldn’t you?

One long sound bellows out of me, moving up an octave as I let it all out. All of it. Every stupid, pompous comment from James. Every frustrating chirpy moment with Katie. Every time I second-guess myself in the run-up to getting married. Every detail I ask my mom for help with and get no response.

All of it.

Maybe I have lungs like Jamie Lee Curtis, because Andrew comes running into my office, primed and ready for battle, stopping short when he sees Carol standing next to me, her phone on my desk, my screams dying as I realize a small crowd of people hover at my door.

“What happened?” His eyes comb over me and he drops to the ground on one knee, touching my arm, my leg, my knee. “Where did you get hurt?”

Josh pushes through the crowd. “Amanda? Are you okay?” He gives Andrew a wary look. “Is someone bothering you?”

Andrew cuts him down with a glare. “I came running in as soon as I heard you scream,” he says to me.

“I’m afraid that’s my fault,” Carol explains.

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