Page 7 of The Billionairess
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Selena was only half-listeningas Todd went through her agenda for the day and gave her a rundown of everything she needed to know. He was reading through her phone messages when he finally caught herattention.
“Oh, and that massage therapist guy, Hunter, called.” Even though Todd’s voice had been monotone, he had said the magic buzzwords that made Selena snap toattention.
“He did?” She asked with more enthusiasm in her voice than she intended. She tried rather unsuccessfully to tone it down when she asked, “What did hewant?”
Todd was already narrowing his perceptive green eyes at her. “You like him!” He accused jovially, already enjoyinghimself.
“No,” Selena scoffed, trying to sound believable. “We just had a very awkward moment, thanks to YOU.” She glared pointedly at her assistant, who held up his hands in mocksurrender.
“Excuse me for having a life,” he defended his decision to leave the office without telling her goodbye. “I figured you’d be in here working half the night away. I couldn’t have known you were sleeping on thejob.”
She narrowed her gaze at him in response to his somewhat accurate accusation. As much as she wanted to blame him for what had happened, she knew it was as much her fault as anyone’s. Besides, she cherished her friendship with Todd and enjoyed their easy banter with one another. No one else stood up to her like he did. It was refreshing to have someone around who would tell her when she was beingridiculous.
Her glare at him had already morphed into a smile. “Are you going to tell me what he wanted?” She threw the wadded up napkin from her morning bagel in hisdirection.
“Oh, assistant abuse!” He pretended to be outraged by her tossednapkin.
“Tell me what he wanted, or I’m going to throw this stapler at you,” she teasedhim.
“Again?” He gave it right back toher.
She couldn’t help chuckling at him, but she was dying to know why Hunter had called. “Tell me!” shedemanded.
“Okay, okay.” Todd finally gave in. “He wanted to suggest that you come into his tattoo parlor to get your daithspierced.”
“My what?!?” She raised her dark, perfectly shaped brows at him, even as she processed the interesting tidbit that Hunter had a tattoostudio.
“Your daiths,” Todd pronounced the word slowly and loudly. “It’s this part of your ear,” he pinched a section of the cartilage on the inner fold of herear.
“Ouch!” she snapped, pulling back from him. “Why would I want to dothat?”
“It’s supposed to help with migraines,” Toddexplained.
She leaned her head to the side and lightly squeezed the area of her ear that Todd had just pinched. “How would that help?” She felt skeptical, but would be willing to try about anything to get rid of the mind-numbing migraines that debilitated her on a regularbasis.
“It’s something to do with pressure points or acupuncture or some other mumbo jumbo. I don’t know all of the specifics… look it up onGoogle.”
“I thought you were my Google,” she teased him as he turned toleave.
She was already looking up daith piercings on her computer, so she didn’t even bother to respond when Todd mumbled, “I’m your everything else,” on his way out of heroffice.
Ten minutes later, she buzzed the intercom for her assistant. “Make me an appointment with Hunter for daith piercing,” she ordered into the phone, without preamble. They spoke to each other several times each hour, so neither bothered with the usual pleasantries after their first discussion of theday.
“I don’t think he does them himself,” Todd informed her, before adding, “but I’ll get you an appointment at hisstudio.”
“I want Hunter to do it,” she specified, trying to make it sound like she would only accept the best, even though she was uncertain if Hunter even knew how to do daith piercings.He was the owner of the facility, so he must know how,right?
“I’ll take care of it,” Todd responded in his all-businesstone.
“Thank you,” she used the same professional, snippiness that he had suddenly adopted. As soon as they hung up, she stood and began pacing heroffice.
She wasn’t sure whether she was more nervous about having two holes poked in her head or seeing Hunteragain.
