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"Then come" He led me by the hand back to his bathroom

The shoas a short, if intense, affair James washed every inch of me, but that was all I tried to return the favor, but he just kissedhimself He slapped my ass when I was clean

"Out," he ordered

I was dressed before he was dry

"I need to grab a few things, if you want to go back to your art studio," he told ht of all of his naked flesh with more than a little reluctance

I went to the co down I hated to have to look at tabloids, but unfortunately they held what I needed for the painting I was planning It took o online with the new operating syste of dread

Looking at tabloids had not been a good idea for me lately, but I really wanted that picture

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

I bracedpictures and headlines I was about to see of myself I wasn’t disappointed

A few phrases stood out ‘Cavendish’s new Vegas Vixen’ and ’Trashy Man-eater’ caught es

The ihed with resignation I would have to delve deeper into the search

I paused on a picture of Ja so much more solemn than any of his other red carpet shots

I clicked on the picture It had been taken at a charity event in New York last week He had none of his usual char almost coldly His eyes were impatient, when he usually had a camera-ready se If so, the tabloids had probably been running ith the idea They hated me, and loved the idea of a love match between Janore the inal search, scanning carefully for what I wanted

I froze at one particular headline ‘James Cavendish’s New Love has Countless Other Men on the Side’ I clicked on the link before I could think better of it, wanting to see what on earth they could mean I blinked stupidly at the pictures in the article

One was of Stephan and I, walking hand in hand on a sidewalk I recognized that I was in Miah I read the horrid thing anyway

According to the article, Stephan was et a piece of the Cavendish fortune

I scrolled down in disgust, scanning for other pictures There were several beach shots of Daed by the pool Da me a very warm look while I lay with my eyes covered by shades, a little smile on my face It didn’t look anywhere near as innocent as it had actually been Looking the picture, you got the ihty things about me

Another was of our walk on the beach His hand was on led towards h flustered by hi to the article beside it, he was a steaer at the blatant lies

They’d even caught a picture of Murphy and I We alking beside each other and laughing The article claimed here that I was a shameless seductress who had toothe trash before I’d even finished, but finish I did

I scrolled back up to the shots of Damien and I They looked soon, and I wondered why The look on his face, perhaps? Or the dark shades I wore, that madeat the disconcerting pictures when Ja my desk with his slim laptop in one hand

He raised a brohen he saw hts, Bianca?" he asked, his voice aot closer I didn’t close the , thinking that hiding what I was looking at would be worse than just confronting it

James’s face tensed instantly when he saw the photos of Daht He had seen these before He wasn’t surprised by the outrageous photos, merely infuriated by the the beach suddenly made a lot more sense And his elevated hostility towards Dae," I told hiing out

You know that, right?"

He studied ed since he’d glanced at the pictures

"Yes," he answered finally "I knoell as anyone how they can take a made up story and run with it But it still hurts to see you together like that Damien obviously cares for you, and wants you