Page 29 of Love is Fake (Love is Everything #1)
Chapter
Fourteen
Lennox and I have spent most of the week going between the bed, the pool, the shower and back to the bed. Somewhere between hunger and exhaustion, we decided we were decamping to the big house. But even there, every moment spent was a moment spent together…until now.
Lennox excused himself to make a few phone calls. For the past few days, he’s had his phone off, having gotten frustrated with its incessant ringing.
Before Lennox and I started working together, I didn’t have any idea how much he had going on.
He may not be playing NHL right now, but he’s constantly getting interview requests, photo-shoot invitations, calls from the charitable foundations he works with, updates from businesses he’s invested in.
Anyone calling him a one-trick pony would only be making themselves look stupid.
My eyes go to the main house, feeling his magnetic pull, but there’s something I have to do first. Kiara has already called me multiple times and there’s no doubt she’s figured out there’s something going on from my resounding silence.
Plus, it’s not as if I’ve ever been able to hide anything from her anyway.
Admitting to sleeping with a client isn’t exactly the high point of my professional career, but I’m not going to pretend it hasn’t happened, especially when I’m planning on doing it again, very soon.
Time to bite the bullet and fess up.
“Finally!” Kiara blows out a sigh as she answers. “I was about to send out a damn search party!”
“I need to tell you something,” I blurt out.
I don’t have – nor have I ever had – any chill. Not even a little bit.
“Okay…” Kiara sounds wary and she has reason to be. Hell, I’m wary about saying the words out loud.
“I slept with Nox!” I figure the quicker I can get the words out, the easier it’ll be. It’s not.
Kiara’s silence on the other end of the phone speaks volumes.
“What? Clearly you have something to say and I’ve never known you to skirt around what you mean. So just say it, Ki.”
My friend sighs. “I just don’t want to see you get hurt, Iz.”
Immediately, any irritation I was feeling towards my bestie drains out of me and I sit down heavily on the bed.
“I won’t,” I assure her, although I’m not as sure of that as I sound.
“Is it…is it serious?” she asks uncharacteristically hesitant.
Good question.
“For him or for me?” I respond only half-joking. “It’s serious enough for me to be telling you about it,” I admit, biting my lip. “And as my boss, I figured you should know and if you want to take me off this job I totally understand.” But I really, really hope you don’t, I add silently.
“I’m not pulling you, Izzy. Unless you want me to?”
“No!”
“Alright then.” Kiara sighs, telling me there’s a lot more she’d like to say, but neither of us are sure if I’m ready to hear any of it. “Just…be careful, Iz, take it slow.”
I nod into the phone even though she can’t see me. I know she’s right, but I don’t want to take it slow, I want to throw myself into whatever it is that’s going on between Lennox and me. No matter the fucking consequences…