Wrong Girl, Right Bed: My Stepbrother’s obsession의 모든 챕터: 챕터 11 - 챕터 14

I was not supposed to be anywhere near the service corridor behind the Magnolia ballroom’s east exit, which is of course exactly where I ended up when my tray ran empty and the kitchen was faster to reach through the back route than the front.The corridor was narrower than the ones meant for guests, unlit except for a single fixture near the fire exit. I had taken this route twice already tonight without incident, moving fast with my head down, counting it as one small mercy in an evening that had not offered me many.Two voices stopped me before I rounded the corner. The voices were low and private, almost like they were both whispering words they shouldn’t be saying.“The press release goes out tomorrow regardless.” That was Dad, stripped of the warm toasting voice he had used on stage minutes earlier, replaced with something flatter and more exhausted. “We need the market seeing this as settled. Any hint of instability and the Cross board walks, and if they walk, we lose the Hartf

I did not know men could be uncomplicated until Damian Kimber asked me where the bar was and meant absolutely nothing else by it.The Aurelia was hosting a mixer that Friday, some joint affair between Grimwood Holdings and a handful of other firms I didn’t know, or maybe, just maybe, didn’t care about. If I did, I would probably know every single one of them, their headquarters, and every detail about the firms themselves. I was working the floor, refilling glasses, following the same invisible choreography I’d learned was the proper way to do things here, much like we had at the engagement party. Everything was almost the same, except this crowd was smaller and considerably less likely to contain anyone who had personally ruined my life.I thought that right up until a man peeled off from a cluster of suits near the window and fell into step beside me like we had already been introduced.“Please tell me you know where the bar actually is,” he said, “because I’ve been given three diff