him that commanded respect and she couldn‘t help but let it
affect her too. He was so handsome and tall enough to tower
over everyone else there. It was no wonder she felt so
insignificant and small around him. Well, she did now. Before
Greece she always thought he favoured her somehow, but now it
seemed as if she was less important to him than the rest of the
women in the office. She had only just realized that. At the time
it didn‘t seem as if he paid any special attention to her, but the
comparison from then to now was obvious. She even started
calling him Mr. King around everyone else except when they
were alone. Funny thing was, he gave her an odd look the first
time she said that but never said anything.
Then if things couldn‘t get any worse Cybil showed up one
Friday afternoon claiming to have a dinner date with Max. Her
eyes raked over Lily in obvious contempt before she released a
cool smile that seemed to say that she was no challenge after all.
―today little girl.‖ Cybil repeated with a snap of her fingers. Lily
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saw Nancy come to her feet behind the model glaring at the back
of her head. Lily shot her a look that told her not to bother
saying anything.
―Right this way,‖ she said forcing a smile.
Max was seated behind his desk when Lily opened the
door and told him that Cybil was here for their dinner date. He
stood up as the other woman sashayed into the room with an
exaggerated sway of her hips.
―Cybil?‖ he said looking at her in question.
―I know I was supposed to show up later this evening, but
I just couldn‘t wait to see you again darling. I hope you don‘t
mind, I had your diver take my bag to your penthouse.‖ She
reached up and managed to kiss him on the mouth while Lily
pinched her eyes shut and left the office shutting the door behind
her.
Nancy saw the younger woman make a bee line for the
ladies room with her head held high, but she had also seen the
quiver of her chin while her lips were pursed tightly to hold her
emotions in.
She didn‘t know what had happened between her boss
and the young woman to sever their engagement, but for him to
parade one of his mistresses through here to rub salt in the poor
girl‘s broken heart.
She would like to have said something but the reality of it
was, he was her boss and like Lily she was an employee.
After Cybil left Max already knew the damage she caused
and meant to cause. Yes, he did reluctantly agree to dinner after
she harassed him over the phone to see him. He‘d already told
her that it was over that night she insulted Lily. However, it was
obvious to him that Melissa had told Cybil that she‘d seen him
and Lily on Demetrius‘ yacht and she called him the next evening
to apologize for her behaviour. She had literally begged him to
get together so she could apologize in person. Now he realized
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that was a mistake. He should have known how devious she‘d
get. The look on Lily‘s face crushed him. Cybil made it seem as if
they were together and it was the furthest from the truth.
After Lily left he bluntly told her to get out of his office
and that the chance of them even remaining friends was not
happening.
―How does it feel Max?‖ she asked with a cool smile, ―To
have your heart broken.‖
―I understand you think you know.‖ Max answered with
his expression unreadable, ―But you‘d have to have a heart in
that cold blooded body to experience such a thing.‖
She released and indignant huff and stormed out of his
office only to storm by an older woman who told her not to let
the door hit her one the way out. At least she got her digs in to
the younger beautiful woman that Max had set his sights on.
She‘d seen the devastation cross her expression when she kissed
Max. He‘d shoved her away from him, but she‘d already gone.
Now let him try and repair that damage.
Max pretended not to let on how he felt, but he could see
that the light went out of her when they returned to Chicago. She
tried her best to act professional, but he was certain on more
than one occasion that her eyes were more moist than usual
before she turned away from him. Then Cybil showed up and
pulled that little stunt, and he knew he needed to straighten that
out too. He ached to tell her the truth but every time he tried to
broach the subject she would shut him down or leave. It tortured
him to see her so hurt and he neglected to talk to Luke about
what had happened, but Lily had asked him not to and he
couldn‘t bring himself to hurt her anymore by letting Luke know.
However, he was going to talk to Luke about moving his proposal
up.
After he dismissed his team he turned to her and told her