Counting the Kisses
Counting the Billions, Volume 3
Lexy Timms
Published by Dark Shadow Publishing, 2018.
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COUNTING THE KISSES
First edition. November 19, 2018.
Copyright © 2018 Lexy Timms.
ISBN: 978-1386276661
Written by Lexy Timms.
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Counting the Billions Series #3
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“HE ASKED ME WHAT MY favorite position was. I said CEO.”
Daniel and I have been through so much already. But now there’s this trial on top of everything else.
And it’s not just the court trial for Daniel. It’s also a trial run of me as temporary CEO of his company.
If things end badly, I’ll be forced to recognize just how tricky mixing business with pleasure can be.
Because problems at work don’t just stay at work.
Is there any way for Daniel and I to fix our relationship again? Or is this the end of us for good this time?
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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
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Chapter 1
Daniel
There was no good way to tell Abby.
All day, I’d been trying to figure out some way to broach the subject with her, to tell her that Gerrard was taking me to court for assault. But I just didn’t want to lose this.
This, right now, being dinner with her at my house. She smiled across the table at me as she took a sip of her wine. “What are you thinking about?” she asked. “You’ve been quiet all evening.”
I shook my head, but I couldn’t think of any way to respond to that. It was now or never. I slowly reached over to the side table and grabbed the envelope full of documents. Then, just as carefully, I slid it across the table toward her.
Abby frowned at me and then lifted the envelope, sliding the documents out of it. I watched her emotions flicker across her face as she read through them. First, there was shock. Then, grim acceptance of it. I wondered what was going through her mind right now. I knew that fight had been part of what screwed things up between us the first time. Things had been going great, but she hadn’t liked the anger she’d seen burst out of me that night, with that stupid confrontation.
I hadn’t been able to help it. Gerrard had told Abby that basically the only reason I had hired her was so that I could sleep with her. That I would fire her as soon as I was done with her. And not only that, but he had said I had done that before with other women in the office. The worst part, though, was definitely the look on Abby’s face when he told her all of this. That hurt and surprise. The resigned look she got as though she should have expected that all along.
I hadn’t been able to handle it. And in retrospect, what I should have done was just steer Abby out of there, take her away from Gerrard and his lies, make sure that she understood the truth.
I hadn’t hired her for her looks. No, she was amazing at her job, and I had realized she would be, right from the start of the interview. She was smart and she was witty, and she did her research. She was thorough.
Sure, I was attracted to her. But that wasn’t why I had hired her.
Beyond that, she wasn’t just some fling to me. Even then, even though our relationship had been pretty new at the time, I knew that she was special to me. I thought that she would know that, and it hurt to realize that she really thought Gerrard was telling her the truth.
Another reason to punch Gerrard. But now, it was the biggest regret of my life.
Abby finally looked up at me, sliding the papers back across the table towards me. She didn’t
say a word, and I could tell from the way that she was looking at me that she was expecting me to say something. I fumbled for the words.
“I don’t want to open this can of worms again any more than you do,” I finally managed to say, my voice grim. “If I could go back and make it so that night never happened, believe me, I would do it in an heartbeat.”
“But you can’t,” Abby said flatly. She shrugged, looking unhappy. “I hate to say it, but you do deserve to face the consequences for your actions.”
“I never said I didn’t.” I sighed. “And I am sorry for what I did. I hope you realize that. I completely overreacted. But I have to admit that if I were to go back and do that night all over again, I probably would do things exactly the same way. I just couldn’t stand the way he was talking to you, as though you were just trash. As though you were nothing at all to me. He had no right to talk to you that way, and I believe in standing up for the people I care about.”
“I know you do,” Abby said quietly, much to my surprise. She sighed. “So what does this mean? How are you going to juggle this on top of everything else?”
“I don’t really know,” I admitted. “I’ve never been to court before. I do have a feeling that things are probably going to get messy once the media catches wind of what’s happening.” I paused. “I’m already thinking that I’ll have to take some time off work. This is going to eat up a lot of my time, I’m sure, plus I don’t exactly want to drag the company’s reputation through the mud with me. Better that the company keep moving along in the background as much as it can.”
“Right,” Abby said, nodding.
That was one of the things I had been thinking about all afternoon. Who could I possibly put in charge of McGregor Enterprises while I was fighting this court case? The only person really qualified to step in for me was Abby. And I knew that she had dreams of one day becoming CEO of a company. She was definitely bright enough, and I trusted her to make all the right decisions for the company.