Page 47 of Playboy Billionaire

“You’re killing me, you know that don’t you? I want you all to myself. I want to hole up somewhere for a solid week. Just you and me. Hell,Iwant to be your bodyguard.”

“Sounds good to me…you can put in your application at the front desk.” She smiled wanly, her face drawn and pale.

“Can you manage an overnight this weekend?”

“Yes,” she said, without hesitation.

“Where I’m taking you, we won’t need security.”

“Where is that?”

“It’s a surprise.”

“Not even a hint?”

“Nope.”

“I hate to bring this up, but Stewart took notice of you trying to hold my hand and I really don’t want anyone speculating about us. I know he would never say anything, but I think we need to be discreet,” Penelope said.

“I caught that too. I agree one hundred percent, but any friend would have done the same. I wouldn’t worry about it with Stew.”

“I’m not, I just want to be extra careful.”

“Absolutely, I wouldn’t have it any other way.”

She smiled. “Not that I won’t be thinking about it.”

He traced her lips with his finger before opening the door, “After you Ms. Winters.”

“Thank you, Mr. Bennett.”

“See you on set.” He turned and walked purposefully away.

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Griffin went back to his dressing room and made a quick call to his brother Kyle. High-handed or not, he wasn’t leaving anything to chance. Despite his apology to Penelope for taking things into his own hands earlier, this was different. He could justify this to himself.

He needed to find out everything he could about Jack Feldner. Did he have a record, a history of violence, anything they could dig up. Maybe even have them do a preliminary on the rest of the crew to see if anything jumped out. Kyle had many connections and had made use of private investigators in the past. He’d know who the best of the best was. Penelope might not be worried, but he was.

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“Dolly are you sure you don’t mind watching Archie overnight?”

“Of course not.” Dolly’s cheeks turned bright pink, and she said shyly, “Ben’s coming over tonight to keep me company.”

“Ben? Ben Donavan? When did this happen?”

“We’ve been hanging out some at work. He’s really nice.”

“Good for you. I like him.”

“I’m going to make dinner for us then we’re going to watch Netflix together. Where is Griffin taking you?”

“He’s being all mysterious about it. He did say that where we’re going, we won’t be needing security for the night.”

“Very intriguing and romantic.”

Penelope looked off dreamily, “Yeah, he is that.”

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