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“But if you need to talk or need anything at all, you have my number,” Jonah said, holding the door open for me. “Call me… anytime. For anything.”
“Damn, Jonah,” Taisha reacted, turning all the way around to look at him.
“What?” he laughed.
“You’re laying it on thick,” Matias answered with amusement.
“And we were explicitly told we can’t mix business with pleasure,” Jacqueline mentioned.
“That’s rich coming from the woman who just said she was trying to get Boss Man to be her arm candy,” Jonah retorted.
“I didn’t say that!” Jacqueline put her hands on her hips. “I said I would behisarm candy.”
We all laughed.
My laugh was a little distracted and my smile was a little forced. My head was spinning, but no one thought plagued it. It was several thoughts all at once.
I exchanged goodbyes with the models and as soon as I got in the car, I called the girls.
Neither of them picked up.
I sped out of the parking deck and headed home. I was just about to park when I received a text message.
Russ: We need to talk.
“We sure as hell do,” I muttered as I grabbed my stuff and rushed into my place.
I was just about to call him when my phone started ringing.
“Liyah!” I cried as I answered.
“Hey, what’s going on? How was your first day?” she replied.
“Tell me why I met the CEO of the company, and it was Russ!” I yelled into the phone.
She gasped. “The Fun One?”
“The fucking Fun One!”
“Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold on.” She sounded as if she was walking, and then I heard two different doorsclosing. “Okay, what? Run that back from the beginning because what?”
Kicking my shoes off, I paced my living room. “Remedy, the one I thought was the CEO, introduced us to the real CEO—Russ!”
“Stop! You’re lying!”
“I swear!”
“That’s wild!” She paused. “You know what this sounds like?”
“What?”
“This sounds like a scheme that Todd set up,” she joked.
I stopped in my tracks. I wanted to laugh and cry at the same time. “Aaliyah!” I snickered and then groaned. “This is not the time!”
“I’m sorry, you’re right. What did he say? What did you say?”
“We didn’t say anything! There were like fifteen people in the room. We just kind of looked at each other in shock, and then I was escorted out of the conference room.”
