Total pages in book: 87
Estimated words: 84700 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 424(@200wpm)___ 339(@250wpm)___ 282(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 84700 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 424(@200wpm)___ 339(@250wpm)___ 282(@300wpm)
That cheating asshole?
What the fuck was she thinking?
Hades passed my office on his way out of the building, and when he noticed I was still inside with the lights on, he stopped and entered my doorway. “I’ve never seen you stay late in my entire life.”
I wasn’t amused by the joke, so I didn’t look at him. My feet were up on the desk, and I had sunk into the leather chair, my hands folded on my stomach. I stared at the fluorescent lights for a long time, trying to make sense of the chaos I’d just witnessed.
He approached my desk. “What happened?”
My eyes shifted to his, and I stared at his hard expression for a while before I lowered my feet to the ground and straightened in the chair. “Liam stopped by.”
“And you didn’t send him to me?”
“He wanted me to put his fiancée on his account.”
His eyebrows slowly rose. “He’s getting remarried?”
I nodded. “You won’t believe who it’s to.”
Hades was a smart guy, so he jumped to the right conclusion within a couple seconds. “Anna?”
I nodded again. “She sat in that chair and wouldn’t look at me…” I glanced at the armchair that probably still carried her perfume. I still remembered the taste of her lips, the taste of her everywhere. “Didn’t say a word.”
Hades slid his hands into his pockets and stood there. “Are you okay?”
I shrugged, as if that was a sufficient answer.
“He’s strong and rich…there are worse guys she could be with.”
I lifted my gaze to meet his. “He fucked someone else when she lost their baby. Fuck him.”
He didn’t react to my hostility.
“I don’t fucking understand.” I slammed my hand on the desk. “Why did she go back to him? Why would she want to be with someone she’d already left? She deserves better than that piece of shit.”
He dropped his gaze.
“I just don’t understand…” I dragged my hand down my face, closing my eyes for a second to shut out the world.
“Maybe you don’t have a problem with who she’s marrying. Maybe your problem is that she’s marrying someone at all.”
“We’ve been broken up for two months.” Our relationship wasn’t serious, but marrying someone that soon? It didn’t make sense. “She was in my bedroom a month ago…begging me to be with her.”
“Maybe that’s exactly why she’s doing this.”
I stared at him.
“She doesn’t want a risk. And Liam isn’t a risk.”
After sleeping on it, I’d thought I would feel a lot better about the whole thing. I was just caught off guard when Anna entered my office with Liam. It was unexpected, so I had to process all of that in a very short amount of time.
But I didn’t get any sleep.
And I felt exactly the same way when the sun came up.
Why was she doing this?
She shouldn’t do this.
It was none of my business what she did, and I’d imagined she would end up with someone else at some point…but it wouldn’t be in my face like this. And it wouldn’t be Liam De Luca, the jackass she’d already divorced once.
I wanted to go to work and brush off the whole thing.
But I couldn’t focus at work. I was exhausted from my long night of staring at the ceiling, and I couldn’t concentrate on anything I was doing. This distracted, I could transfer billions of dollars into the wrong account, and Hades really would kill me.
I grabbed my coat and walked into the hallway.
Hades happened to be passing. He looked me up and down, seeing me put on the heavy coat to battle the frost that formed in the corners of all the windows. “Can I talk you out of it?”
“I wish you could. But you know by now I never listen.”
He gave me a gentle pat on the shoulder before he continued on his way. “Good luck.”
“Thanks…” I drove to the Tuscan Rose and threw my keys at the valet before I stepped inside. I’d never seen her at the hotel before, but I knew her office was next to Sofia’s, so it wouldn’t be difficult to hide.
I moved down the hallway and crossed paths with a few staff members, all of whom glanced at me like they had no idea who I was. The women stared the hardest. I peeked into the first office and saw an older lady. I went to the next door and stilled when I spotted her.
She stood behind her desk, wearing a long-sleeved black dress with a diamond necklace around her throat. Her shiny hair was slightly wavy, thick and with enormous waves gliding down her strands to the ends. It was pinned over one shoulder, making that side voluminous. Dark makeup was on her eyes, and her favorite shade of deep lipstick outlined the beautiful plumpness of her lips. She stared down at a few documents in her hand, as if she were about to leave her office to take them somewhere.