From Boardroom to Bedroom

“What?”

Sophie stilled. Return with him? He couldn’t mean that. He couldn’t really want her to come back. First of all, this was just pretend and second of all, in a month, they likely wouldn’t be speaking.

Her heart hurt because he stared at her with such hope in his eyes while he waited on her answer.

“My family seemed to take you in as one of their own and if we’re getting to know each other more and more, it only seems right that you come back with me.” He shrugged. “I mean, if you want to.”

Roslyn closed her eyes just as the plane took off down the runway. Her breath caught in her throat but the fear she had of flying took a backseat to the fear she had of breaking Nigel’s heart.

She simply couldn’t do it. Not now. Not when he was pouring out his raw, honest feelings. He may not have been using the L word, but he was already inviting her back and that spoke volumes.

He literally was handing her everything, and if she told him the truth now, she would be throwing it all right back in his face. He would hate her.

There had to be a better way.

murmured, squeezing her hand when the plane tipped up.

was being silent and avoiding speaking to him because of her fear... If only

her real name, her story...would he still want anything

eyes and shifted to face him. “I’d love to come back with you, but first I want you to meet my family. Well, my brothers. Then we’ll see if you still want me to join

I’m going to meet your brothers and get scared off? Are they that

the truth was brutal. “I just want you to know everything about me before we go any

her another minute and Sophie wished she could just get up the courage to tell him the truth right now like she’d

told her as he leaned in and slid his hand across her

Sophie Blackwood.

of her tongue, but she said nothing like the coward

Miranda of anything at this point? Sophie had betrayed Nigel day after day and she’d had the nerve to call it love. But she did love him. She’d made a mistake that she couldn’t take back and there was no way she could’ve ever seen this disaster coming. Never before in her life had she purposely set out to hurt someone, to blatantly lie to someone’s face. Going into this whole charade, she knew she’d be

settled heavy in her heart as Nigel kissed her. The intimacy poured out of him and

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