Under His Protection (Love Under Lockdown Book 11) by Jamie Knight

Author:Jamie Knight [Knight, Jamie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-07-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Dixie

When I woke up the next morning, I was alone in bed. I had never slept so peacefully as I had when Julius came and spent the night with me. I felt so warm and protected.

Out of force of habit, I checked my phone. I had a ridiculous amount of texts; Shawn had been texting for hours, demanding to know my whereabouts. He bounced back and forth between concerned and mildly threatening to outright demands. The last thing I needed was to have him call the cops and have the cops track me down here. Although I was pretty sure he had no way of even guessing where I was, I didn’t want to take the chance. I’d be horribly embarrassed if the police showed up to Mr. Lamb’s mansion looking for me. Then again, I’d probably have a great punishment afterwards, so… No, I couldn’t do that to my boss. I decided to text Shawn back.

“Hey. I am working and I am fine. Please don’t bother me any further, Shawn,” I texted. “We broke up.”

“You’re not even going to let me apologize?!” he texted back.

“I don’t care if you apologize or not,” I replied. “I need to move on. I’m sorry, but it’s over. Don’t bother me. I’m working.”

If Shawn ever found out where I was, it would be bad. Horrible, even, considering last year’s Christmas party…

Shawn and I had gone to the annual work party. It was the normal routine; I went to his work party, and he went to mine. There were cookies and catered food, and since Lamb Associates had the money to go all out, they had even hired a bartender and server. We were standing around the printer, balancing our plates on it and picking at the food, when Shawn spotted Mr. Lamb.

“Oh, so that’s your pretty boy boss, huh?” he had said. “He’d better not lay a finger on you.”

At the time, I had found his jealousy mildly endearing, mostly because I didn’t think I was in the same galaxy, much less league, of Julius Lamb. I remembered wondering if Shawn could somehow sense I found him attractive, but back then, he was just my boss.

Putting on my bathrobe, I went downstairs to get some breakfast. I found Mr. Lamb already fully dressed and going through some files. He had a breakfast plate already prepared for me.

“Hey, sleepyhead,” he greeted. “Grab some breakfast and get dressed. We have a lot of work to do.”

“Okay,” I said, smiling. “Thanks for comforting me last night.”

“Uh huh,” he said, not looking up from his files. “I’m going to set up the Zoom meeting. It’s 8:30 now. Think you’ll be ready by 9:30?”

“Oh, uh, I guess I could be,” I said.

His demeanor was suddenly all-business again. Did I do something wrong?

“C’mon, hurry up and eat,” he said. “We’ve got clients to attend.”

“Uh, yeah, let me grab a shower first,” I said, returning upstairs.

It was so strange. Maybe I’m just not awake yet, but Julius was acting completely differently now.

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