From Boardroom to Bedroom

Twelve

With Nigel out of the country, Lulu was set on getting Fee to agree to the spin-off—or at least the wedding episode for Secret Lives.

“If that’s really what you want to do, I’ll stand behind you,” Lulu

told Fee.

The cameras moved around but Lulu ignored them. She’d gotten more than used to having her entire life filmed. Today she was having lunch with Seraphina as they chatted about Fee’s upcoming move to Texas. While she hated losing her best friend, she understood how much Fee loved Royal and the people there—not just Clint, though the love Fee had for her fiancé was certainly something special.

When the cast and crew had been there for Christmas at Miranda’s estate, they’d all fallen a little in love with the charming town. And after those devastating fires, Lulu more than understood Fee’s need to be with the man she loved in his hometown.

After all, hadn’t they all wanted to land a cowboy?

Unfortunately, the only one who’d caught her eye, and gotten on her last nerve the entire time she was there, was Kace the snarky lawyer... The snarky lawyer who’d shown up at her penthouse just to talk a few days earlier. Sure, like they’d ever just talked. At this point, they couldn’t be alone for two minutes without clothes falling off. Mercy, the things that man could do with his hands.

Fee asked, reaching for her

Lulu smiled and pushed

“About anyone I know?”

with the world or Kace. There had been enough footage of the two of them bickering during the cleanup from the fires last month. By the time this show aired that they were filming today, who knows where she’d stand with him. Would she tell him her feelings? Would he admit to

giving her friend a wink. “I say we

her glass in a mock toast.

get everything

hostess would give her the

her friend about the spin-off. She loved Fee and didn’t want to

to make all of this work

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you before,” Nigel

to a regular rhythm after that close call. The scrutiny with which Ellen kept staring

for lack of anything