Sweet Sinner by Jones Lisa Renee

Author:Jones, Lisa Renee [Jones, Lisa Renee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary
Amazon: B09VS7985R
Goodreads: 60716884
Publisher: Julie Patra Publishing
Published: 2023-03-21T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Bella

I don’t sleep.

I lie in bed and listen to the rain on the roof, pitter-pattering about, and thinking of that night I went to Tyler’s apartment. It was raining then, too. And now what am I doing but standing in my kitchen, in my robe, sipping coffee while the pup eats, and I’m still thinking about it. I’d needed to go to the bathroom, and I just didn’t see it anywhere. Maybe I subliminally wanted to see his bedroom. I don’t anymore. He’d knocked on the door and when I’d opened it, his anger had been brutal.

“What are you doing in my bedroom?” he demanded.

I’d been flustered and confused. We’d had a disjointed exchange and he’d grown impatient and snapped at me. “Coming here was not a smart decision. You need to leave.”

“You’re being a jerk,” I’d declared, but then he knew that. He excels at being a jerk, and yet, I chose him to fall in love with. Of all the men I’ve crossed paths with, who I didn’t even say yes to dating, I chose him.

I’d followed my brilliant “jerk” insult with a statement of fact. “You’re being a bastard.”

“Because I am a bastard, Bella,” he’d proclaimed. “You’ve been warned. I won’t warn you again.”

He’d warned me all right, and I listened about as well as a two-year-old listens to anything. I need to step back from what is happening between me and Tyler and think about that warning a little harder. I’m going to work from home today, I decide. I need to put off Morgan’s interview. I can’t hire her when I don’t even know what I’m doing right now. I might have to leave the company. My stomach knots at the idea. I press my hand to the churn in my belly. I love my job. The problem is that I also love my boss. And hate him. The fine line and all prove true.

He lost his professionalism over Becker.

Maybe that means I’m not nothing to him, or maybe it means he really is worried about how he looks when I’m on his arm.

I grab my phone and text the nanny: I’m working from home, but please do come. I can’t be on a call when the pup needs to pee.

Right about then, Molly starts sniffing the floor and I scoop her up. Fifteen minutes later, I open my laptop and email Morgan to reschedule our interview. The next email is the harder one. It’s to Tyler, only why does it have to be hard at all? Short and simple, I tell myself.

Tyler,

I’m working from home, but I have my pet nanny here with me so the puppy won’t interfere with my work.

—Bella

The nanny line was to deter him from showing up here and thinking we’re going to end up naked, and then I’ll bend to his will. I won’t, even if we ended up naked. Except while we are naked, but after, I’d come to my senses. Okay, I can’t let the naked thing happen.

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