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She was going to lie to her Dom

Kinley shifted around on the cracked seat of her tiny Honda and looked up at the i that housed Club Decadence, Austin’s h they’d already suffered through the discomfort of Sloan’s displeasure

He won’t find out

Yeah right

There was no way he could miss that she’d taken a second job

And to say he’d be unhappy about it would be an understatement

She bit at her lip nervously She wasn’t good at keeping secrets, her face tended to broadcast her every thought far and wide How could she avoid lying and still e not to tell Sloan she was financially up the creek without a paddle, or a boat? In fact, she was drowning This second job was a godsend It paid well, had a hours meant she could keep her other job as a receptionist for Foley’s Plu It was a in, really

Except for Sloan Her lip started to sting where she’d pulled at it, and she forced herself to take a cal breath What was the worst that could happen? So she’d taken a second job, it was no big deal

Except that’s the sort of thing you’re probably supposed to tell your Dom

But it wasn’t like they lived together They didn’t share finances They played together They had sex Sometimes she slept over at his place

“Not like we’re planning on getting ,” she muttered

Kinley was a bit of an old-fashioned girl Sleeping with Sloan, letting hi deal

All she’d ever wanted was a family A husband Kids Her sister often told her she’d been born fifty years too late After graduating high school, Char had gone off to college on a scholarship and hadn’t looked back

Kinley had barely scraped through high school Char was now a successful lawyer, with three kids and a husband as a plastic surgeon

Kinley drove around in the car her parents had bought her when she left hoed to pay the rent this month

All thanks to Eddie Her bastard ex-boyfriend He’d emptied all their business and personal bank accounts and taken off to Ibiza with the wife of their lawyer, leaving Kinley with a huge financialfor years while siphoning funds into an offshore bank account

Hmm, Char had actually liked the jerk Kinley wondered what she’d think of Sloan

She s Sloan