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A tight feeling sits in my stomach, making me wish that I never set foot in here.

“When do you think you’re going to make the announcement?”

“At the relaunch party.” Dad smirks and leans forward, digging back into the work in front of him. “I have to finish going through Jade’s proposal for the next year, then sign paperwork for the board.”

“Well, I’ll leave you to that.”

I tuck my hands in my pockets to hide the way they shake with anger.

This whole time, Jade has been lying to me.

The conversation with Dad is what confirms it for me. If he is going through her proposal for the next year, then I’m sure she’s speaking to him behind my back. She’s making a play for the company, and I wouldn’t have known if I hadn’t overheard the conversation in the lunchroom.

As I leave his office, every moment since Jade entered my life again plays on repeat through my mind.

Was it all a lie?

Was she just using me to get another company under her belt?

Millions of dollars weren’t enough for her. She needed to prove that not only could she build her own businesses, but she could take the one I’ve worked so hard for and breathe new life into it.

For weeks, she’s been lying to me. Between the proposal I didn’t know existed and the people being considered for CEO, everything snaps into focus.

She did this to hurt me, and today is where it ends.

When I pop my head into Jade’s office, she looks at me with a smile, but it falls pretty quick. “Is something wrong?”

“Yeah, there is. Come to my office.”

CHAPTER 18

JADE

Istare at Grayson’s retreating back as he leaves my office and promptly walks into his.

He doesn’t glance at the glass wall between us as he sits down at his desk and crosses his arms.

What the hell got into him today?

He looks like he’s completely through with the day, even though he’s only been here for half an hour.

I don’t know what happened or what he was talking about with Lara earlier, but I would be willing to bet that it’s the same thing she’s been talking to me about for the last week.

She’s the first one to say anything about the way Grayson and I allegedly look at each other. She seems to think that we’ve been hiding a relationship, even though I’ve told her that it’s just sex.

Although, I would be lying to say that I haven’t been thinking more about pursuing a real-life relationship with him.

I still don’t know if he feels the same way about me that I’m feeling about him.

There are some moments when I think that he could be falling for me, but there are others — like now — when I start to think that I’m the one who has no idea what’s going on.

He glances over at me before pointedly looking at the gold watch on his wrist.

Arching my eyebrow, I lean back in my chair. He isn’t my boss, even if I do like him to take control in the bedroom.

If he’s going to march in here and demand that I go to his office when he was already in mine, he’s going to be waiting.

Humming to myself, I pull closer to my desk, looking through emails on my tablet for the next ten minutes. I take my time scrolling, feeling his angry glaring boring into the side of my head.

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