Chapter 88

“Brielle! Open up right now!” Anger and humiliation churned within, a tempest raging in his chest.

Brielle lounged on the couch, making no move toward the door, her arms instead wrapped around Max’s neck.

Max glanced down at her, easing her hands away, “Not going to answer the door?”

Brielle snorted with amusement, pointing first at him, then back to herself, “So that he can find out that the almighty Mr. Dorsey has graced us mere mortals with his presence to personally attend to an employee?

“Wouldn’t be the end of the world.”

“Bang! Bang!”

The pounding on the door persisted, a clear sign that if the door wasn’t opened, the knocking would become a permanent fixture.

and quickly powered it down. Outside, Spencer indeed began to

the number you have dialed is switched off.” Frustration nearly drove him to crush his phone, but then Lillian called. Spencer paused, irritation flickering in his eyes. In truth, the specific reason he had ended up in Lillian’s arms

mind, muddled by booze, remembered only the softness of her embrace, and her whispering, “If it were me, I wouldn’t let

blessing, yet Brielle seemed clueless

clipped, leaning casually against the door,

mood, Lillian tread lightly,

with Lillian, he felt everything. Lillian was understanding, considerate, and even after knowing he was unwilling to break off the

swift denial. “No, I’m at the Dorsey estate. Max

poor soundproofing meant his words were crystal clear to

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