Chapter 11

Her throat felt tight. “It’s fine.”

“I missed you the other night,” he said, his deep voice soft, probing.

She blinked. “What do you mean?”

“At dinner. You didn’t show. You were working late?”

“What?”

“Raquel said you weren’t available.”

Laura was furious. “She lied.”

“Lied? Why?”

“She told me I wasn’t invited. That it was a meeting just for the two of you.”

He exhaled. “I see. That’s not what she told me.”

“Mmmhmm,” she said. She was steamed.

“And then when I didn’t call you…”

“Yeah,” she said, feeling silly and gullible. She thought of Raquel and how manipulative and selfish and outright mean she was. She didn’t know how she was going to continue to work for someone like that.

“Your boss is a piece of work,” he said. “I’ll have to keep my guard up. But she does seem capable of handling our campaign. I’d still like to work with you, if you’d be comfortable with that?”

“Yes, yes, of course,” Laura replied, putting a hand to h