“Face it, Coop,” I say, leaning over to offer him a fast kiss. “Any person’s acquired to be in cost round right here.” I spin him round by the shoulders and provides him a swift smack on the ass to get him transferring.

“We’re going to speak about this,” he says. Given the best way he’s adjusting what’s now a full-blown erection, I’ve acquired a reasonably good concept what he means when he says “speak.”

My cellphone chimes with an incoming name.

“Hey Ty,” I say, swiping to reply it. “What’s up?”

“Acquired a second?” asks my boss.

“A couple of, when you want it.”

“I’ve information in regards to the investigation,” he says. My coronary heart begins to pound.

“And?” Absolutely in the event that they had been going to fireplace me over this, they’d have carried out it whereas I used to be within the workplace earlier, proper? In all probability. Absolutely.

“I feel you’re aware of an worker named Mila Hague,” he says.

“We’ve met.” Mila had lastly stopped asking me out as soon as the cooking competitors pilot aired a couple of weeks in the past. “What’s she acquired to do with something?”

“The IT division was capable of affirm that tabloid article was submitted by one of many computer systems at Sizzle HQ,” says Drew. “Particularly, the laptop computer issued to Ms. Hague.”

“You’re joking.”

“Not within the slightest,” he says. “As soon as HR acquired her to confess to sending the picture and beginning the rumor about you and Cooper and Bailey, she confessed to tampering with the tools throughout the stay occasion as properly.”

“What the hell?”

“She claims she was simply attempting to get your consideration,” says Ty. “And, ah… as soon as the safety footage got here out, she needed to get again at you. She didn’t elaborate about that although.” In fact, Ty had seen the footage of Cooper and me making out backstage that day. He’d gone out of his approach by no means to say it till now. Swallowing my embarrassment, I clear my throat.

“We went out as soon as, Mila and I,” I clarify. “I don’t make a behavior of going out with colleagues, I swear.”

“None of my enterprise, Drew,” says Ty. “I simply needed to let you understand, case closed. The community isn’t urgent fees, however as of as we speak Mila Hague is now not employed with Sizzle.”

I inform him thanks and cling up the cellphone, scrubbing a hand over my face. Given her response to Bailey on the gala all these weeks in the past, I knew Mila might need been a little bit unbalanced, however I by no means would have guessed—

The doorbell retains me from pursuing that prepare of thought any farther. Once I open the door, I’m shocked.

“Mother.”

“Hi there, Andrew,” she says quietly. “Can I are available for a second?”

“Um, positive.” I double verify over my shoulder simply in case Coop or Bailey modified their minds about getting dressed, however thus far we’re clear. “Come on in.”

Mother shakes her head after I supply to take her coat.

“I received’t preserve you lengthy, expensive,” she says. She research my face intently. Uncomfortable and doubtless being fairly apparent about it, I clear my throat.

“Cooper and Bailey will likely be out in a minute,” I say. She must know they’re right here, at the least. I sq. my shoulders, prepared for a combat.

“In fact,” she says. “That’s why I’m right here. However earlier than I say what I got here right here to say, I must ask you one thing.” Mother reaches throughout the couch and takes my hand. “Are you content?”

“Sorry?”

“It’s a easy query,” says my mom, smiling a little bit. “Are you content?”

“I’m… In fact I’m,” I say, confused by the query.

“I’m referring particularly to your lovers,” she says, her smile rising a little bit. My face heats.

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