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11

ADELINE“ Mr Archer, just sign the papers and let’s be done with this.” I hissed and glared at him. “Sign it.” I repeated, fighting the urge to back down as I met his gaze, Instead I wrapped my arm over my chest.His woody cologne invaded my senses the moment he leaned in closer. What was he doing? He tilted my chin upward, his touch much gentler than I expected. My heart thumped in my chest when he wouldn’t let go, when he leaned even closer.I sucked in a breath, frozen in place. What was he doing? I wanted to push him off, lean back. My mind was willing but my body wasn’t having it. Even as his hand slipped from my chin down my neck, as he tightened his grip a little, I didn’t move. I couldn’t. Not when blood rushed away from my brain the moment he closed the distance and took my lips with his.I stilled. Gray-Mr Archer was kissing me. Mr Archer was kissing me and in public too. We never even hugged before and he was kissing me.I wanted to fight it, but the louder my brain screame

12

GRAYSONI flipped page after page searching for a company that had no connection with the Blacks. The more pages I turned, the sooner it dawned on me that I may have made a mistake walking out on baby Black.A knock at the door interrupted my self berating. “Come in.” I called not bothering with who it could be, there were only four people who had the guts to enter my office and only one of them knocked. My assistant, Alicia.She walked in clad in yet another pencil skirt, her eyes everywhere but in my direction. She held an iPad in one hand while her free hand ran down the length of the black skirt, a nervous habit she still hadn’t outgrown after working with me for over two years.I didn’t look up from the endless files on my desk as I asked, “What is it, Alicia?”Instead of answering like I expected, the room remained in silence. I spared a glance to make sure she was still in the room and leaned back when I caught the concerned look in her eyes. “Just spit it out, nothing could ma

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ADELINE“What in the actual hell, A.” Kris barged into my room, as always tossing all manners to the wind. “I thought you were supposed to be on a date with your hunky prince charming, what’s all this about Grayson Archer?”If she noticed me trying to grab on to more sleep, she was very good at hiding it. I groaned and rubbed my eyes. Sun streaked in from the open curtains, worsening the ache in my head. “Why are you so hyper so early?” I whined and pulled the sheets over my head. I sighed in momentary bliss, momentary meaning two seconds because the sheets were yanked from my body before I could get too comfortable.“Wake up! It’s like thirty minutes to noon.” Wait what?! There was no way I actually slept that long. I blame it all on Grayson and his recent obsession with disrupting every aspect of my life.“Still it’s not like I have anything important to get to.” I scoffed. “Just let me sleep.” I turned in the bed, away from her.“What happened to school?”“Not in session yet.”She

14

GRAYSONWhy did I interrupt their date? I knew why I hadn’t signed the contract, signing meant Johnny would whine me to death till I found a way to get his Addie back. Yeah, I would rather avoid that. But the date, there was no need. But most of all, why couldn’t I get the thought of her in that dress out of my head?!“Sir, did you hear me?” Edwin called from the driver’s seat.I snapped my attention back to him, “What was that?”“I said we’re home sir.”“Oh…” I need to get my act together. It wasn’t supposed to be this difficult to get her to extend the contract. Had it really been that horrible to be married to me?“Take the car around, then you can take the night off, I should be in for the rest of the day.” I told him before heading to the house. Of course, it wasn’t horrible. If it was she would have said something sooner, but she was too busy enjoying my wealth to notice. Then why isn’t she jumping at the opportunity now? Fuck! I needed to fix things and fast before I went crazy

15

ADELINEI held a hand to my chest. My heart raced but I didn’t dare leave the door, I couldn’t trust my legs not to betray me. What the fuck was that? Was Grayson actually trying to kiss me? Again?Shuffling came from the other side of the door and that was my cue to beat it. I pushed off the door and raced down the hallway till I was back in the living room.Johnny said something but for the life of me I couldn’t be sure what it was and I didn’t wait to find out. I shoved the guilt down and sprinted out of there like the building was on fire. Maybe it was, or maybe it was just my chest that was, either way, I needed some air.I hail the first cab I see without hesitation and only released a breath when I safely in its four walls. “Pack Avenue, The snack hut.” I told the driver and leaned further into the seat, letting it deal with all the weight.The drive was just what I needed to not go insane with the endless thoughts that ran through my head, none of them even remotely sensible.

16

GRAYSONThe more I searched the more dead ends I came across. It was looking more and more like the Blacks truly were the only way in, but there was no way in hell I would let myself be strapped to an incompetent fool like Raymond Black.A knock interrupted the peaceful silence of the air conditioning in the office running. The sun had been scorching all day, it was the little reprieve.“Yes? Come in.” I called, knowing without asking that it could be no one else but Alicia.“Sir a lady, Camila Arson would like an attendance with you.” She pulled a pad to her chest as she looked between me and the door.Not today. It was one thing to try to approach me in my home but I had hoped she had half a brain to realize that my office was off limits. “She can’t. Tell her I’m in a meeting or something.” I waved off, striking off the Hawthornes from my list of alternatives for the Raven project. They had sketchy deals and were on the verge of bankruptcy but somehow found a way to doctor their boo

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ADELINE“What do you want?” I cut right to the chase the moment he stepped through the entrance of Anna’s pub and sat on the chair which looked a little too small for the sheer size of the man.“Who said I want anything?” He smirked and leaned lazily on the chair. I would expect the size of the wooden chair would make him uncomfortable but once again he shocked me.“We both know you do.” There was no point lying to myself that he suddenly had some magical change of heart. “I asked you once and you didn’t waste anytime shutting it down so why all of a sudden?” I crossed my arm over my chest and his eyes followed the tiny act. I released a slow breath and pinned him with the best glare I could muster.“What? I can’t decide to have mercy on you and once again be the hero?” Once again? When was he ever th- he couldn’t possibly be referring to.“You were an opportunist, not a hero.” I gritted my teeth together to stop myself from biting the arrogant son of a… female dog.“Potato-potatoe.”

18

GRAYSONFor the third time that morning, I had to start afresh because I had just been flipping pages but not paying attention to what was in said pages. Why hasn’t she texted or called? She had my contact, if she wanted to reach out, it wouldn’t be too hard so why hasn’t she?Bigger problems Grayson. Focus. Oh yes. I returned my attention back to the file in my hand. I successfully finished reading and groaned in frustration right after. It was another dead end!Grabbing the work cell, she’s my first speed dial, “Alicia, come into my office.”Her voice was quiet as always, “On my way, sir.” she squeaked.Less than a minute later a knock came at the door. “Come on in.”“Sir you sent for me?”“Yes.” I looked up from the paper. Once again she was wearing a pencil skirt, navy blue this time, contrasting with her skintone. “Have the Blacks reached out?”She shook her head from side to side before she said, “Not any word yet, sir.” She avoided looking me in the eyes the entire time.“What

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ADELINEIt’s been three days. Yeah, you’re right, three days since I made a deal with the devil in expensive suits and agreed to sign my life over to him. And that was enough time for whatever voodoo that had been at work when I made that deal to wear off. Now, all I could think about was how much I would have to give up, fine, I had given a few terms, but if I was being honest I didn’t even want to be within a hundred feet of the man. He was infuriating, lacked basic human decency and worse of all, was blind to it all.I would be giving up what little pride I had left to get rid of the blogs, blogs that wouldn’t have existed if he was just a normal person and stayed away! Was it really worth it? Was it worth it to give up all that and still give up being in a relationship, building a life, an actual one with someone outside the contract. That had been part of the contract last time. Shit. I should have added that to my terms. Why hadn’t I even considered that?I swiped my earbuds fro

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GRAYSONWas she ever going to call? She was doing it again. Making me wait. The first time I didn’t mind because she was thinking about it, considering it, weighing her options, but this time, she was obviously stalling and I didn’t have the stomach for it.I was back where I started, unable to focus, not because I particularly cared, but because the longer she stalled, the longer I had to tolerate Camila’s presence. I didn’t want to do it, but she was leaving me no other choice. I don’t think making her fall for me would be as easy as I thought it would be. If I had learnt anything, it’s the fact that she would go to extra lengths to make sure she wasn’t remotely close to me.I rolled over on the bed and grabbed my phone from the nightstand. Still no texts or calls. If she had gone to the office, Alicia would have called. Maybe if I… what was the name of that her idiot friend again? John? Jude? Jay! Yes. She even gave him a nickname. Nonsense. Maybe if I bought Jay’s house from its a

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