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“You’re here!” he came to kiss me on both cheeks.

I turned to face the green-eyed bitch and she gave me a cold stare back.

It wasn’t over, whatever it was.

Just great, I thought, as Jack started to give me a tour of the castle. Yet another enemy. Life was just a blast.

Chapter 12

Jack

“Who was that?” Kaya asked as soon as she came in.

“Oh, Natania? My assistant?”

“She wouldn’t let me in,” Kaya said, sounding pissed off.

“She’s just protective,” I said dismissively.

Kaya gave me a cool look. “She basically chased me away.She said you were mobbed by ‘groupies’ and refused to call you.”

I teased her. “Are you jealous? Of Natania?”

Not a good move with Kaya

She pulled a face.

“You know, I’m glad this amuses you but I don’t enjoy being treated like trailer park trash so make fun of me all you like, I’m going home.”

She turned around to leave, and I couldn’t believe how quickly she had again taken offense.

“Wait! Don’t go yet, I will have a word with Natania, it won’t happen again.”

She gave me a sarcastic look.

“Look, I’ve had some dinner prepared.”

“You don’t eat dinner.”

“But you do, come on.”

I led her into the dining room where the table had been set for a feast.

She stared at it, but in an impressed way.

“Look, I’m not dressed for this,” she finally said. “I mean, I don’t do fancy dinners. I am a pizza and beer girl.”

This was not going as I had planned at all.

Exasperated, I threw my arms in the air.

“All I wanted to do was to plan a nice evening for us,” I said.

The dining room table had been laid with lace tablecloths and flowers overflowing in vases. Candles lit up the room. I hadn’t seen it like that in longer than I could remember. I’d asked the housekeeper to prepare a small dinner and they had overdone it. It wasn’t who she was and it wasn’t who I was either.

But then, just as I thought the evening was lost, Kaya gave me a strange look.

“I will tell you which room I am interested in,” she said, winking at me. Her voice dropped. “How about you show me your bedroom?”