Page 22 of Damaged Mogul
After a round of introductions, the gentleman pulls Dominika away.
With a wave and a huge smile, she promises she’ll be back.
Lily turns to face me. “I’m sorry about that. I don’t have to come tomorrow night?—”
“Dom made it pretty clear. You’re part of the sisterhood.”
“I’m touched, but these are your friends. I’m passing through town?—”
“The decision is out of my hands.”
“If you don’t want me there, I won’t go.”
I work my jaw, pondering.
I didn’t plan on spending a minute longer than I had to with Lily.
But the powers that be, aka, the sisterhood, would have my balls on a platter if I showed up tomorrow night without her.
Silence stretches between us, taken up by the laughter, chatter, and commotion of the event around us.
My nostrils flare.
The angel sitting on one shoulder cautions me to tread carefully, but the devil sitting on the other is taunting me.
She’s waiting with bated breath for my verdict, her ridiculously long lashes fluttering.
My fingers twitch to caress those damn lashes.
And my dick twitches to a whole other tune.
I stick my hands inside my pockets. “You’re coming.”
Chapter 7
Lily
Holy testosterone.
Gage Hollingsworth is a force of nature.
Mikki invited me to Rhys’s birthday party.
Dom insisted I come.
Gageorderedme to come.
I hate when my father abuses the power-play between us––he holds the purse strings––as a way to order me around, so I’m confused as to why I find the command so darn sexy coming from this brooding stranger.
The man is unsettling.
Even the way he walks. So much swagger.
After a much-needed drink to cool down because I was burning up like a wildfire from the proximity to my hunky chaperone-slash-bodyguard, Gage suggested I work the room.
So, here I am, making friends.
After an animated conversation with two video producers, I was chatting with a forty-something cinematographer agent with a flamboyant dress sense. Bless her for pulling off a redvinyl strapless floor-length gown which she wore over a white turtleneck, embellished with a cascade of bold necklaces, her wrist circled with wide silver cuffs.
