Page 58 of Her Irish Boss

Brogan didn't move to stop her, which pissed her off even more. Katie stood at the bar, looking sad as the police loaded Cathal into the back of the car parked in front of the pub.

“Thanks for giving him the heads up.” Selena hugged her.

Katie pulled back. “Are you going with Mr. O'Keeley to get him out?”

“I'm going, but not with Brogan. What are you doing right now?”

She motioned to the bar. “I was going to have a beer and drown my sorrows that they put the prettiest man in Atlanta behind bars.”

“Come with me. I'm going to file charges against Simmons.” Selena linked arms with Katie and guided her out of the restaurant and around the edge of the building to the parking lot. She needed a friend. Someone to keep her sane.

“Selena!” Brogan's rough voice called from behind her as they approached her parked car. He hesitated when he spotted Katie. For once, she didn't care about how it made him feel. Her own feelings of being hidden under a rock, out of sight, were too strong to ignore.

She waited at the trunk of her car while Katie paused by the passenger door. “I think I missed something,” Katie said. “He looks mad as hell right now.”

“What?” Selena asked him, not caring about how angry he looked. She was pretty damned pissed herself.

He looked at Katie and back at her. Then back to Katie.

“Were you coming back to finish the project?” He stuck his hands in his pockets. She'd noticed him do that almost every time they were in public together. “Later?”

Selena lifted a shoulder. “I don't know. If this takes too long, then I'll see you in the morning and start where I left off.”

His eyes shifted to Katie again. He looked incredibly uncomfortable. But he made the rules. This entire situation was his own fault as far as she was concerned. She wouldn't end up like her mom, taking pity on the guy and letting him drag her down again and again. Or like she'd been with Jacob like she embarrassed Brogan.

“I'll see you later,” Selena finally said when he wouldn'tmake a decision and walked to her door. She sat down without looking back.

Katie sat down beside her. “Damn, I hope a man looks at me that way someday.”

“What way?” Angry? Annoyed? Every word that described a man like Brogan when he didn't get his way, and Selena didn't fall in line.

“Stop pretending you two aren't a thing. I won't tell anyone, but it hurts my feelings for you to lie to me.” She changed the station on the radio. “He's really strict about that no dating policy, huh?”

Selena would let Katie in because she needed someone. She needed advice. “Yes. So much so that when I mentioned to him about going out somewhere, he said that wouldn't ever happen.”

Katie's head snapped her direction. Selena concentrated on driving and not on the Audi following her to the police station.

“Ever? As in for-ever? What kind of relationship is that?”

Selena stopped at a red light, glancing in her rearview mirror and frowning at Brogan's scowl. “A shitty one. For both of us.”

“What are you staring at? Is it Brogan?” Katie flipped the visor down and looked behind her. “It's so strange calling him that, but if my best friend is sleeping with him, then I'm at least going to use his first name with you.”

“We haven't slept together.”

Katie stuck her lip out in a fake pout. “He looks so miserable. Maybe you should.”

“I'm not giving him pity sex. He does look miserable, though. But I feel miserable as well.”

After reapplying her lipstick, Katie flipped the mirrorclosed and changed the radio station again. “You have options, you know.”

“Like what?”

“Well, what are your goals?”

Selena's lips quirked to the side. “You sound like my guidance counselor in high school.” And that conversation had been a complete waste of time.

“I'm serious. What do you want to happen between you and Brogan? Hot, heavy, and quick. Long and sweet.”

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