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“Everything in order for this evening?”

She held a pen between her lips as she leafed through the paperwork in her lap After I’d finished with lanced in my direction

“Mmm, hmm,” she replied

“Good” I said, shifting s no later than eight o’clock tonight Where are we having dinner?”

Just then, I sensed all motion froht just enough to see her fidget in my peripheral vision

“U dinner?”

I turned my head back and looked at her “Yes, that’s what I said Why is that a surprise? With ere you expecting me to have dinner?”

Maddie hesitated for a moment before she winced “Well, I sort of already…”

I angled my upper body in her direction “Already what?”

She folded her hands together and placed theed for an escort for you tonight Her naes before producing a photo

Turning in my direction, she offered the picture to me “Here, this is her Isn’t she beautiful?”

Taking the picture froood look I glanced at it for an instant before I turned it sideways, tore it, then turned it sideways once ht pieces

“Uh!” Maddie scoffed “Why did you do that? Wasn’t she pretty enough for you? Isn’t that what you want?”

I glared at her as she looked at me, dumbfounded

What the hell rong with this wo she was? Why would I want soot her?

“Greyson, I don’t understand what is going on,” she said as she leaned over to try and pick up the bits of the shredded photo from the floor of the limo

Before she could grab the her

“I’ve already told you what I want, Maddie Don’tht, for the rest ofmyself absolutely clear on that point?”

After failing to retrieve the bits of Lynne’s ie from beneath my feet, Maddie leaned back into the seat next to me and nodded her head “Yes, I understand I’ht you didn’t really mean it when you told me that before”

Satisfied she’d received ers in my lap “I always mean exactly what I say, Maddie Life is too short to mince words, especially in matters of business… and beauty”

I noticed her head turn a fraction in my direction before she spoke “Uht o’clock you said?”

As she finished speaking, we pulled onto the lot of the studio and the lilanced at her

“Yes Eight o’clock And not one minute later”

MADDIE

When the li lot, I had the sudden realization I was in the midst ofmy lower lip with my upper teeth, I took a mental inventory of what I’d spent Greyson’s entire deposit on and it didn’t take long to realize where it went

Aside fro list of things he rejected when he got here, I was in deep with the additional payment I made to secure Lynne’s escort services Unfortunately for et to Greyson Sinclair was the sole of the ten thousand dollar loafers he used to squash her face with not fifteen minutes earlier

Frantic, I whipped out my phone, opened the calculator app and did so more zeros than I cared to mention, I couldn’t believe the number I was left ouldn’t even cover the damn limo for the rest of the trip!

Ugh! I hadn’t even been in business for three days yet and already I was broke!