•44•Apologies And Passion

Skylar was still bristling with resentment the next day at the memory of the experience she'd had with Luca the night before. An experience which had shown her just how much he didn't trust her.

How could he have said all those things to her, judged her when he'd known right upfront about her past sex life and said he accepted it?

"Skylar. . . Skylar, are you paying attention?" The deep, mature voice of a middle aged man seemed to float from the distance, and it was a nudge on her shoulder that brought her back to the present.

Blinking, she looked up at the man who stood beside her chair in her office. "Gregory, is there a problem?"

Gregory, the general manager of the marketing department and a share holder in the company regarded her speculatively before pointing to the file they were reviewing on her desk. "You were not paying attention."

"No I was, Gregory." Skylar lied, denying his claim. "You said we needed to find a balance between the cost and the profit and out list the reason