Page 63 of Flirting with My Billionaire Enemy

“I am allergic. She wasn’t supposed to come with me.”

“So you stole a pet from a bunch of billionaires? Are you crazy?” Farah says.

“It was an accident. I already told them. They’re sending someone to pick her up.”

“Aww. I wish she could stay here forever.” She nuzzles her nose to Mittens’.

“We’re going to need to head to the store to get her some food and a litter box,” I say.

“Easton and I can go if you want to stay here and rest up from your trip.”

“That would be really helpful,” I say. “But I can’t rest. I have some work to do.”

“Don’t forget to take breaks from time to time. You really do work too hard sometimes.” She stops and laughs. “Well, what am I saying? Sometimes? Most of the time, let’s just face it.”

“It’s true,” Easton says. “I’ve been over here enough to see if for myself.”

“I’m under a deadline, so this time, it’s valid.”

“Well, we got your back tonight, girl,” Farah says, grabbing her purse from the kitchen counter. “We’ll be back soon with some pet supplies.”

As soon as she shuts the door behind her, my phone rings again. I take it to the couch and Mittens jumps up into my lap. I pick her up and set her next to me, kicking myself again for not getting allergy shots. The Benadryl can only do so much.

Mrs. Keith is on the phone.

“You and Kaison broke up? He says you’re leaving the company. Please tell me that’s not true, and that you didn’t really mean it.”

“I’m afraid it’s true,” I say.

“Why did you do it?”

“I’ll tell you, but you can’t tell Kaison.” Then I think about it. If it’s really over between us, then maybe it doesn’t matter if he knows the truth. “I ran into his old girlfriend at Blue Mountain Brewery.”

“Blair?”

“Yeah.”

“What was she doing in town again?”

“I don’t know.”

“Maybe she was trying to get back together with Kaison. That lying snake of a woman had better stay away from my son. She’s been banned from our property so she thought she could stay around town and maybe catch him to prey on him some more.”

“I don’t know. She didn’t tell me what she was doing in Blue Mountain.” But she did warn me about Kaison.

“It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure it out. She’s a gold-digger if I ever saw one. She has all the earmarks of one.”

I’d been so upset about Kaison still being in love with her that I hadn’t gone back to figure out why she was in town still. Maybe there’s some truth to what Mrs. Keith is saying.

“She was warning me about Kaison,” I blurt. “She told me he was dating so many different women because he was still in love with her. To numb the pain of the breakup.”

“That’s a load of garbage if I ever heard one.” She pauses. “Well, maybe there was some truth to it at one point, but he’s way past that now. Don’t you see? He’s in love with you. Not her.”

Even if that’s true, I’m still not ready for a relationship myself. But oh, how I want to be. I would give anything to have Kaison’s arms around me tonight, to hear him tell me Blair means nothing to him and that all his feelings are for me now.

Life really can be so cruel.

“Why don’t you come back for Christmas and see where things go?” she suggests. “You don’t have to make any big promises. Just spend time with us. You can’t spend Christmas alone eating takeout. I won’t stand for it.”

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