Page 129 of Obeying Mr Kingsley
My hand reaches outto Lexi as we sit opposite Mark Harrow and his team of lawyers.My high-powered team sits on either side of us, dwarfing his.
There’s a very strong chance this will break the contract we have, but Lexi is my priority, and I’m clear as day that she’s the woman I am spending my life with.
I’m worth billions, and at some point in life you realize what’s important.
When she told me the entire story and how Johnathan had forced himself on her in the stairwell just before setting her up to steal the money, it supercharged my commitment to making sure the asshole was exposed and charged.
With the additional information, the private investigators were able to start digging further and speaking to people in the office.
The risk wasn’t as big as Lexi panicked about.
“Babe, you never have to work again.I’m marrying you.Relax.”
“That’s now how this works,” she argued.
“It’s exactly how this works.Start your own business.Buy a business.I don’t care.”I threw out my hands.“This jerk is not going to get away with what he did to you.You don’t need a reference for a job.”
“This is your penthouse.Your money.Not mine.”
“Fine, pay rent.”
Lexi pouted.
“Exactly.So, my beautiful soon-to-be-wife—”
“You haven’t asked yet.”
“You wouldn’t say yes yet.”I grabbed her and pulled her onto the sofa with me, flipping her onto her back.“But you never say no,” My fingers slid under her panties.“So for now I’m happy.”
“Sex is not a manipulation tool.”
My fingers slid inside, and she turned to putty.
“Okay, baby.”I grinned, sliding down her body and widening her legs.
When my tongue swiped through her wet pussy, Lexi arched off the sofa and moaned.
Not a manipulation tool, my ass.It was the very best.
After a week, my investigator called to say they’d found an employee at Harrow Engineering who saw Johnathan follow Lexi into the stairwell and nudge her against the wall.He thought they were having an affair.
Another woman said he’d done the same to her months ago.
That was enough to speak to my lawyers and reach out to Mark Harrow and set up this meeting.
He wasn’t happy.
“We have enough to take this to litigation.Enough that a judge would find the lack of proof, the witnesses who cast enough doubt on his person to see this thrown out,” Gareth, my senior solicitor, says.
Mark looks my way, then quickly at Lexi.
“You are in a relationship with her.”
I nod.
“Why bother with all of this?”he asks, “You risk our business relationship and the contract when a gag order is in place to protect both parties from being reputationally damaged.”
“Yet it didn’t, did it Mark?”Lexi snaps.“You made a comment to Mason, which nearly cost me everything.”
