Page 109 of Arrogant Playboy

“He’s not interested in hearing about Rosie,”Louis tells my cousin in French.

“Too soon?”my cousin asks, my brother nods.

“Everywhere I fucking look she is here. I can smell her,”I tell them. They stare at me.“Fuck you both.”

“I told him he should go to Dubai,”Louis says. I shake my head.

“Guessing he did not like that idea.”Matthieu smirks.

“No, you told me to open a DuPont Gallery in Dubai.”I sneer at my brother.

“That’s a great idea,” Alex adds. I still. Shit, I forgot that man speaks French.

“What’s a good idea?” Alistair asks.

“That Daniel opens a gallery in Dubai. That way, he can be with Rosie,” Jasper adds. That fucker speaks French, too. Shit.

“That sounds like a great idea. Let’s go,” Matthieu says.

“I’m sorry, what?” I glare at my cousin.

“We have a huge clientele in the Middle East, it seems silly to make them travel to our Europe offices to pick out art when we could work directly with them. The Middle East is the fastest growing market,” Matthieu adds.

“The complex where Ivy’s office is has a couple of office spaces available. Let me grab their details,” Alex says before pulling out his phone and tapping away.

What the hell is going on? “Are you telling me to pack up my life in London and start again in Dubai?” I ask the entire table.

“I did when I moved to New York,” Nate calls out.

“I’m in fucking London,” Louis adds.

“I have no ties to Dubai,” I argue with them.

“Yes, you do. Rosie,” Alex states.

“She doesn’t even want me.”

Alex shakes his head. “That’s not what Ivy has said.”

“The girls are rooting for the two of you, Lauren told me,” Jasper adds.

“Even I heard about it. I had to listen to the entire run down. Sounds like she’s trying to protect herself because you left her,” Nate adds.

“Has everyone been talking about us?” I stare at my friends. They all nod and murmur.

“Ivy said Rosie still loves you, but things went off course and now you both don’t know what to do,” Alex confesses to me.

Wait, she loves me? “She told me she never loved me.”

“Rosie broke down on the plane when the girls asked her about you,” Alex says. She did? The first flutters of hope light inside me. “She told them everything, from the night you met at that party in the garden to you ghosting her, then you returned asking for another chance, but she had just spent the past week watching your socials of you partying with models in Greece which seems pretty damning.”

Not my finest of hours.

“Been there,” Alistair adds.

“I’m breaking girl code telling you all this. But you haven’t lost her, she’s afraid to let you in. You leaving her, especially after she worked so hard on this house, hurt her. She lied to you when you asked her to make the choice that night, to protect herself,” Alex says.

Fuck.

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