The Perfect Illusion by Winter Renshaw

Author:Winter Renshaw [Renshaw, Winter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-04-23T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 9

MAGNOLIA GRANTHAM

“You have a good weekend?” Skylar Van Cleef walks past my office with Addison right behind her.

“You look rested.” Addison brings a coffee mug to her lips. Her skin is the perfect shade of goddess—bronze. St. Thomas must’ve been good to her. “I like that. Looks good on you.”

I pull in a heavy breath, as if I’m agreeing with them, and nod. I’m not sure how rested I could look. I haven’t slept a full night in days. “It was a very lovely weekend. Addison, your place is breathtaking.”

“We got lucky,” she says, taking another sip. “Wilder knew someone. It was a pocket listing. That place would’ve been snatched up in the first twenty-four if they listed it for what we paid.”

Skylar turns to Addison, batting her on the shoulder. “Don’t forget, Theo and I are borrowing it this weekend.”

“Hopefully, we’ll get to use the place sometime this month.” Addison winks at Skylar. Once upon a time, Skylar was her assistant. Then she worked her way up and married Wilder’s cousin along the way. Now they’re family. “Wilder was eager to get back to work. Ten days in St. Thomas without his laptop was too much for him.”

“You didn’t let him take his laptop?” I ask.

Addison grins, shaking her head. “Nope. This was a work-free vacation. He’s lucky I let him take his cellphone. I caught him checking his email a few times the first few days. Made him go cold turkey after that.”

Wilder is a ruthless businessman, commanding respect the instant he walks in the door. But he loves his wife more than anything. Addison comes before everything else, including their multimillion-dollar real estate empire.

“You’re good.” Skylar lifts her brows, picking at her pink polish. “I’m impressed. Theo would look at me like I had two heads if I made him take a technology hiatus.”

“Vacations are exceptions. You should try it this weekend,” Addison says before turning back to me. “So what all did you do in Montauk?”

I should’ve been prepared for this question. Guess I’ve been so preoccupied, it didn’t occur to me how I was going to answer it.

“Um,” I say. “I got there Friday, and someone else was there.”

I glance up at Addison. Her eyes crinkle.

“Xavier Fox,” I say with meticulous detail.

Skylar’s jaw falls. She didn’t know me two years ago, but she knows of Xavier, and she knows we had a falling out.

“How’d that happen?” Addison glances up at the ceiling. “Sweetie, I’m so sorry. Wilder must’ve lent out the house without telling me.”

“It’s fine. I still had a nice time.” I force a smile to cover the sick swirl in my belly. That gorgeous weekend in the Hamptons, the one that should’ve rejuvenated me and brought me back from the dead, left me consumed with confusion and tasting bitter melancholy instead. “He left on Saturday. I still had two whole days to myself.”

“Was he cordial?” Her chin tucks, her eyes softening. Wilder and Xavier are friends, and she knew something went down the second I left my partnership with Xavier and came running to her new agency.

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