CHAPTER1

Sloane

Breaking right into a ten-thousand-dollar-a-night Greek villa hadn’t been in my plans for the day, however plans modified and folks tailored, particularly once they had shoppers who insisted on making their life as troublesome as attainable.

My knees scraped towards concrete as I hauled myself onto the terrace ledge and over the railing. If I ruined my brand-new Stella Alonso gown over this, I’d kill him, convey him again to wash up the mess, then kill him once more.

Fortunately for him, I landed on the terrace with out incident and slipped again into the heels I’d tossed over earlier. The heavy drum of my heartbeats adopted me to the sliding glass door, the place I tapped the grasp key I’d “borrowed” from one of many maids towards the cardboard reader.

I’d’ve gone via the entrance door, nevertheless it was too uncovered.

The again terrace was the one manner.

The cardboard reader whirred, and for a single terrifying second, I assumed it wouldn’t open. Then the reader flashed inexperienced, and I allowed myself a breath of aid earlier than I set my jaw once more.

Breaking in was the simple half. Gettinghimto one other nation by sundown was one other.

I made a rapid detour to the kitchen, then crossed the lounge to the first suite. I winced once I noticed the empty beer bottles littering the kitchen counter, and it took each ounce of willpower to not toss them within the recycling bin, sterilize the marble, and spray the room with air freshener.

Keep centered.My professionalandpersonal reputations have been on the road.

The villa was cool and quiet regardless of the early-afternoon solar splashing via the home windows, and the bed room was cooler and quieter nonetheless.

Maybe that was why, once I walked to the mattress and unceremoniously dumped a big bowl of ice-cold water over its slumbering occupant, the velocity of his response startled a uncommon gasp out of me.

A robust hand shot out and grasped my wrist. The empty bowl clattered to the bottom, and the room tilted as he yanked me down, rolled over, and pinned me towards the mattress earlier than the gasp absolutely left my mouth.

Xavier Castillo stared down at me, his good-looking face etched with a scowl.

The one son of Colombia’s wealthiest man (and my least cooperative consumer) was normally laid-back to a fault, however there was nothing laid-back about the way in which his forearm pressed towards my throat or the 100 eighty kilos of stable muscle trapping me beneath him.

His scowl relaxed as anger gave approach to recognition and a contact of horror. “Sloane?”

“Thatismy title.” I lifted my chin, attempting to not give attention to how heat he was in comparison with the damp mattress towards my again. “Now, in the event you may launch me instantly, it will be appreciated. I’m ruining a seven-hundred-dollar gown.”

“Mierda.”He spit out the curse and relaxed his maintain on my neck so I may rise up. “What thehellare you doing right here?”

“My job.” I pushed him off me and stood. Was it simply me, or was it exponentially colder now than it’d been 5 minutes in the past? “It’s the twelfth. You already know the place you’re purported to be, and it’s not right here.” I glared at him, daring him to argue.

“I assumed you have been an intruder. I may’ve damage you.” Now that we’d established I wasn’t right here to rob or kidnap him, a well-recognized grin changed his frown. Xavier retook his spot on the mattress, the image of insouciance. “Technically, youarean intruder, however a really lovely one. When you needed to hitch me in mattress, you solely needed to say so. No must go to all this bother.” He arched an eyebrow on the bowl on the ground. “How’d you get in anyway?”

“I stole a grasp key, and don’t attempt to distract me.” After three years of working with Xavier, I used to be used to his tips. “It’s one within the afternoon. Your jet is ready for us on the airport. If we depart within the subsequent half hour, we’ll make it to London in time to prepare earlier than tonight’s gala.”

“Nice plan.” Xavier stretched his arms over his head and yawned. “Apart from one drawback—I’m not going.”

My nails dug into my palms earlier than I caught myself.Breathe.

Keep in mind, murdering a consumer is taken into account unprofessional.

“Youwillget off the bed,” I stated, my voice chilly sufficient to freeze the droplets of water lingering on his pores and skin. “You’ll board that jet, attend the gala with a smile, and keep for the whole lot of the occasion like a superb consultant of the Castillo household as a result of in the event you don’t, I’ll make it my private mission to make sure you by no means have one other second of peace. I’ll crash each occasion you attend, warn off any lady silly sufficient to fall into your orbit, and blacklist any of your folks who allow your worst impulses from my occasions. I could make your life a residing hell, sodon’tmake an enemy out of me.”

Xavier yawned once more.

This had been our dynamic since Xavier’s father employed me three years in the past, proper earlier than Xavier moved from Los Angeles to New York, however I used to be completed going simple on him.

“So, you’re my new publicist.” Xavier kicked again in his chair and propped his ft on my desk. White tooth flashed towards tanned pores and skin, and his eyes sparkled with a slyness that made me bristle.

Ten seconds after assembly my most profitable consumer, and I already hated him.

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