All Chapters of Forbidden Fling: Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

Shana stares at me pointedly as we sit across the table from one another at a quaint little pub near my apartment. Truth be told, I’ve exhausted my repertoire of cooking skills and people can only eat so much pizza. Thankfully, we had Kimbra’s cooking yesterday, and Shana has offered more than once to cook, but my cupboards are bare. And I’d rather spend time with Shana doing things other than shopping for groceries.“He said you knew. Why didn’t you say anything?” she asks.“Why didn’t I say anything?”Shana’s lips come together as her eyes widen.“You’re asking me why I didn’t say anything to you about Max still being in town.”“Yes, Trevor, that’s exactly what I’m asking. Now that we have that cleared up, could we move on to your answer?”I grin as I take a small drink of my beer. It’s a local craft with a dark color and a surprisingly non-hoppy taste. After I swallow, I look again at the feisty lady staring me down. If I thought she was really upset, I wouldn’t take this so lightl

“I can’t believe they’re taking this to the final buzzer,” Trevor says through my phone.Though his sports reference isn’t lost on me, I’m too worried about what is about to happen to reply right away. Unable to sit still, I grip my phone tighter as I pace about Stephen’s and my temporary office that is no longer.All of our things are packed and ready for our flight. According to the people with Saks who organize our travel, with the royal wedding about to occur, there is no turning back on our pre-booked flights. If we did, we wouldn’t get another flight for over a week—which doesn’t sound bad to me—and the increase in cost would be astronomical—which sounds bad to them.Even my hotel room is packed. “I know that I’m leaving,” I say to Trevor, “but I wish I knew if I were coming back.”“Listen, I know you’ve worked for Saks for a long time. I know you love the company, but in my opinion, the way they’ve treated you on this is shitty. They flew you over because they needed someone to

“Boss lady, before you went in there, I told her what I’ve told you: we are a team. I’m not upset about the way this went. I’m moving back to London, we’re still together, and I too am getting that fifteen percent increase that Neil offered.”“He obviously didn’t know what was going down in New York. He could have had us—”“Or he did,” Stephen suggests, “and he was afraid Witch Vicky might turn you against the company as a whole, and he didn’t want to lose you.”“How can you always make me feel better?”“It’s in my job description,” Stephen says with a smile. “And for the record, I know that this time with Trevor, this time leaving for London, it will be different.”“I want that. It’s just that as I was leaving, he seemed so...I don’t know the right word... distracted.”“Maybe he was holding out for the same dream. You know how those macho men are?”I scoff. “Like you?”“Yes, exactly like me.” Stephen covers my hand again. “No, macho men want to fix everything. Your man is a planner a

The energy necessary to be bitchy dissipated by the second as I bit my tongue, stopping all the words I wanted to say, smiled politely, thanked Vicky for her consideration, and told her that she and the entire lingerie division was welcome, considering the fact that Stephen and I had traveled to New York on a moment’s notice, saved their show, and increased their sales. I then stood, told everyone in attendance that I would be returning to London and to juniors since the counteroffer I’d received from Neil was too good to pass up. I then bid everyone goodbye, leaving Vicky’s shitty offer sitting unsigned on the table as she stared at me with her mouth agape. I did get the feeling she didn’t know about Neil Butler’s counteroffer, which gave me a smidgen of satisfaction.I left so quickly that I didn’t even have a chance to say goodbye to Chantilly or others I’d come to like in the lingerie department. The truth is that I had to leave while my head was still high and eyes were without t

"I’ll need to be on-site on and off during the week," Trevor says. "We will figure all that out. But my weekends will be free. I was only one of the engineers who worked on the proposal, but after I learned how you were being treated in New York, I applied to my boss to let me supervise the project. Then, even before it was approved, I went to Max and pushed for the funding commitment. It was a long shot, but it worked.”“So you’re here now in England?”“I am.”And then I recall the royal wedding. “But how did you get here? Flights are booked. This city is a madhouse.”“I called in one more favor.”“From whom?”“I called my brother.”The tears again threaten the back of my eyes. “You asked Duncan to fly you to England?”“What good is it to have a hotshot brother with a company plane if I never use it?”Forgetting about my lovely aroma, I reach up and wrap my arms around Trevor’s neck. “Of all the things you did, I get the feeling that call was the most difficult.”Trevor shrugs his wi