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Dianna exhaled slowly. “I’ve had a lot of time off…” “So? Your work gets done on time and with the highest quality. You work more hours than we pay you for, even when Mason has told you to stop. No way will Mason fire you.” Dianna rolled her lips together and slid down in her chair. Despite Felicity’s reassurances, a little seed of doubt had taken root in her brain. Dianna wouldn’t have put it past Phil to complain about her out-of-office time. He had no idea the hours she worked, mostly because she didn’t log them and didn’t ask to get paid for them. It was important to her that her work was above reproach. No, she might not be able to be in the office like normal people, but that didn’t mean she didn’t love her job. But all Phil saw was her empty office. He didn’t understand the creative side of her job. He was all about the numbers and he was old school. Phil didn’t believe people could be productive when they worked from home, despite the evidence to the contrary. “
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“Why don’t you just give your buddy Mason a call,” Jack said with a snide tilt of his lips as he crossed his arms over his chest. “You got me into the last launch with your connections. Why not this time?” “Do you really think we’re the only press trying to get a scoop? You don’t think I’ve already tried reaching out to Mason? For us to get this locked down, we’re going to need all the help we can get, so that means making nice with Dianna. You’ve had a year to mend bridges, Jack.” “And none of this would have happened if not for you,” Jack responded. Carter rolled his eyes. “Get over it. You know I have the best interest of all of us at heart. I would never let anyone into the building that I didn’t have complete confidence in. I did the background checks, Jack. Dianna has no connection to Kara. None. Riley was never in danger.” “But I didn’t know that,” Jack spat. Carter exhaled long and loud, leaning on the conference table and dropping his head for a minute. When he look
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Felicity smiled at Dianna. “You can go on through.” Dianna managed a smile for Felicity and looked toward the doors of Mason’s office with trepidation. She could very well be walking into her own execution and she had no defence. Mason could decide to end her employment with Black Sheep and she wouldn’t blame him…okay, she might blame him a little bit, but ultimately, if he deemed she wasn’t pulling her weight and had taken too much time off, she couldn’t exactly refute it. She’d had a lot of time off and even though she tried to work as much as she could, some days it just wasn’t possible. Her work was never late or sloppy or compromised, but her in-office hours were definitely less than ideal. “He won’t bite,” Felicity said from her gate-keeper’s desk. “If you tell me his bark is worse than his bite, I might have to hit you,” Dianna replied without looking away from the double wooden doors in front of her. Felicity chuckled. “Mason will not fire you, now get in there before
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Mason frowned harder…or deeper…or got more frownie…or whatever. “You think there is another blog more suited?” he asked. “I’m sure there is,” Dianna lied. “Hmm,” Mason hummed, looking at her strangely. “Give me some time to do some research,” Dianna blurted. “Let me bring you a couple of other alternatives and then we can decide.” Mason rolled his lips together and his eyes got narrow like he was trying to read her mind. Dianna swallowed and hoped like hell he wasn’t an alpha-wolf-shifter-mind-reader. “You’ve got until tomorrow,” he said. “Nine o’clock tomorrow, we’ll revisit this discussion then.” Dianna jumped to her feet to make her escape. “No problem,” she said and rushed from the office, not even sparing Felicity a glance as she power walked past her desk.What the fuck had she been thinking? There was no other blog in Australia that would be more perfect than The Playbook to partner with. Now she had to come up with a list of possibilities and she was drowning in
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“Hold the elevator!” Jack stuck his hand between the elevator doors to stop them from closing. As they whooshed back open, he saw Dianna making her way toward him. She hadn’t seen him yet, and he had a rare moment to observe her without her in attack mode. She moved slower than he was used to seeing her and he was about to open his mouth and make a sarcastic comment when he noticed she wasn’t just moving slower; she was limping. Jack frowned. Was she injured? “Are you—” Dianna looked up then, caught sight of him, and scowled. The words he was going to say died on his tongue. Before his eyes, she transformed. Her back and shoulders straightened and the beat-down look on her face melted away. In place was the ice queen he’d become all too familiar with. He sighed. It was his own fault, really. He knew he’d created this problem and he should fix it. Now more so than ever. He needed Paper Gate and Dianna was his way in. They didn’t have to be friends, she just needed to not ac
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Dianna watched Jack slam his door and sighed. She leaned against the hallway wall, taking the weight off her hip and lower back, and grimaced. That hadn’t gone well. Moving slowly, she let herself into her apartment and let her bag fall from her shoulder. She kicked off her shoes as she made her way to the bedroom and stripped off her dress, leaving it in a heap on the floor as she dragged herself into the ensuite. Groaning, she bent over to turn on the taps to fill the bath and then dumped a heap of Epsom salts into the tub along with some bicarb. The bicarb helped to open the pores so the Epsom salts could do their job, or so her acupuncturist advised. Whatever, it felt good and her skin was super soft after. It was her little bit of self-care and even if it didn’t have any medicinal properties, just the fact she was doing something for herself was good enough. Dianna dropped some lavender oil into the bath too, but not too much. Too much gave her a headache. While the bath
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So no, she didn’t want anything from Jack. She didn’t need anything from Jack, even if his attitude toward her pissed her off to no end. Men could all go to hell, as far as she was concerned. Okay, not all men. Mason was pretty decent for having a penis, and some of the other guys that lived in the building seemed nice enough, but not Jack. Jack was firmly in the bastard column, and she’d had enough of those to last her a lifetime. Still, she probably shouldn’t have jumped down his throat earlier. He had tried to apologise and even though she knew it was only because of Paper making nice with him would serve her purposes too. Mason wanted her to work with The Playbook and that meant working with Jack and as hard as she’d tried to find an alternative, there wasn’t one. What she should have done was gracefully accept Jack’s apology and let them move on to a tacit but non-combative working relationship. Instead, she’d bitten his head off and her only excuse was the gremlin that live
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The darkness wrapped around Jack like a comforting blanket as he settled on the couch, a glass of scotch in one hand and his gaming controller in the other. The silence was warm and soothing, and for the first time that day, Jack felt like he could take a deep breath. Riley was fed, bathed, and asleep in his bed. The house was tidy, and the dishes done, and the rest of the evening stretched out before him. It was time to lose himself in a bit of adventuring—virtual adventuring, at least. He slouched back against the couch cushions and sipped his drink while he waited for the game console to boot up. He didn’t have to worry about work, Riley, or even his neighbor and the pile of steaming shit he had to somehow fix. For the next couple of hours, all he had to worry about was the horde of angry dwarves that stood between him and the treasure. Jack logged into his private user account. He was a man with multiple personalities—or at least it felt like it at times. To his eight hu
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6 months later“Are you ready for this?” Anthony asked as they stood outside the courtroom. Talia nodded and gripped Parker’s hand. The judge had called them back in for the verdict on Mark’s trial and she couldn’t deny she was nervous. The weeks spent preparing for the trial and then sitting through the witness statements and being cross-examined by an aggressive defense attorney who made her out to be some sort of diva and ungrateful bitch who was somehow ripping off the father who had done everything for her had taken its toll. And the media beat-up was just as bad. However, not all the media had been on her father’s side. Talia had discovered she had far more supporters than she’d thought. Her fans—the true fans—had gathered in force to support her and she loved them for it. Not enough for her to consider going back into acting, but enough that going through the trial had been bearable. But if not for the constant and unwavering support of Parker, Talia didn’t think she woul
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Parker rolled his eyes as he took her hand and stood. “Seal the deal?” “Isn’t that what you said earlier?” He shook his head, his grin still in place. “No, I said celebrate.” “Okay, good. Let’s do that then.” Parker grabbed her and lifted her up, making Talia squeal. He kissed her and she wrapped her legs around his waist and her arms around his shoulders. Stumbling, he carried her to the bedroom and tossed her on the bed with a flourish, making her squeal again. “I feel like we need champagne and strawberries or something,” Parker said, standing with his hands on his hips as he looked around the room. “You mean like pouring champagne in my belly button and licking it out?” Talia asked, lifting her shirt to reveal her navel. Parker cocked an eyebrow. “Hmm…that’s something to think about for a later celebration,” he said. Talia pouted. Parker held up his hands. “I don’t have any champagne on hand,” he protested. “Then I’ll just have to
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“You called Isaac,” Parker said when he walked into the apartment. Talia looked up at him and bit her lip. “I did,” she said. “But before you get mad, I didn’t say anything about what happened. And I did it because I knew you wouldn’t say anything to defend yourself.” Parker sighed. “I’m not mad,” he said, walking over to where she was seated, working on her miniature diorama. He leaned down and kissed her. “I’m grateful. Thank you. What you said to Isaac helped.” Talia grinned up at him. “So, they’re going to let you do the article?” Parker nodded. “They are.” “That’s so great,” Talia replied. “So it all worked out.” Parker pulled out a chair and sat down beside her. “Things have worked out for me, but what about you? What are your plans now? Without Mark controlling your every move, you can do anything you want.” Talia dropped her head and fidgeted with her fingers in her lap. “I don’t know what I want to do,” she said quietly. “I don’t think I wan
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Talia pulled back from the kiss. “Don’t you think it was pretty selfish of me not to sacrifice myself for you?” she asked. “No,” he said, reaching up to tuck some hair behind her ear. “What you did wasn’t selfish, it was survival. There’s a difference. Me expecting you to sacrifice yourself for my job would have been selfish. Are you doing what you need to in order to survive? Not selfish. Not in the slightest.” “It feels selfish,” she mumbled, leaning her forehead against his. “I feel like I need to do something to make it up to you.” Parker cupped her face. “Talia,” he whispered. “This is not some quid pro quo thing. There will be times when you will save me. I have no doubt about it. That’s how relationships work. It’s swings and roundabouts. There is no big tally sheet in the sky and nobody is keeping score.” “I just don’t want you to feel resentful—” Parker cut off the rest of her sentence with a kiss. “How could I be resentful of the fact that I get to have you in my l
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“She’s asleep,” Parker said, coming into the living room from his bedroom where Talia had finally succumbed to sleep. He slumped onto the couch beside Stephen and laid his head on his father’s shoulder. Anthony looked over at him from where he was sitting, going through some paperwork on his laptop, and Carter paced, not able to sit still. “I take it the article came out,” Parker said. “Yeah,” Carter replied with a sigh as he raked his hand through his hair. “It’s going to do us some damage,” Parker said. “Maybe,” Carter said with a shrug. “Maybe not.” Parker frowned at him. “What does that mean?” “It gets your name out there,” he replied. “It will drive people to your blog.” “Fucking hell, Carter,” Parker exploded, jumping to his feet. “Seriously? You think this is a good thing?” “I didn’t say that,” Carter replied. “I just said it wasn’t necessarily damaging to us.” “And what about Parker asked. “The article would have tanked that de
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Anthony had filed a police report as soon as he arrived in the city. “Their hands are tied,” Anthony said with a sigh. “There is no evidence of force and as she recently hid from the public because of a scandal, we have nothing to say she isn’t doing it again because of the latest issue.” “But can’t they force her to at least speak with them? To check that she’s okay?” Parker asked. “As far as they’re concerned, she has just gone into hiding again,” Anthony reiterated. “Until we have something to say otherwise, they can’t do anything. This has the potential to be a high-profile case because of who she is, so if they make a big deal about it and it turns out to be something innocent, it might blow up in their faces.” “That’s bullshit,” Parker growled, pushing up from his seat to pace around the room. He hated that he was sitting there doing nothing while Talia was trapped in her father’s house. It was torture to know where she was and yet not be able to get to
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“You have got to be fucking kidding me,” Talia said. After Mark’s big reveal the night before, Talia had been left to sleep off the effects of the sedative he’d given her. The fucking bastard. He’d locked her door so she couldn’t get out and the window was too far from the ground for her to escape that way. Not without breaking something, anyway. Which Talia wouldn’t have minded, except with the way she’d been feeling, the thing that got broken might very well be her head, and she was kind of attached to it being in one piece and remaining on her shoulders. So Mark had stalked her and Parker and then kidnapped her and drugged her and imprisoned her and he was under the impression that he was perfectly within his rights to do so. “I’m doing this for you,” Mark said. “Your mental health is at stake here.” “The only threat to my mental health is your arsehole behavior,” Talia snapped. They were sitting in the sunny kitchen at the table and Mark was trying to pretend that it
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Carter clicked his fingers. “The original photos, the ones that were taken when you took her out to look at the miniature street art.” Carter turned to Parker. “You were in some of those photos. Your face was blurred, but that could have been done after the fact.” “So he’s been following me?” Parker asked. “You and Carter. Both would be my guess,” Jack said. “So he’s been following us, but how did he know I was sending a car to pick her up?” Parker asked. “Have you noticed anyone following you?” Carter asked. Parker shook his head and then paused. “What?” Carter asked. “What’s that look?” “It’s probably nothing,” Parker said. “Just say it,” Carter said. “I was speaking to Talia just before I went into the meeting he said. “When I hung up from the call, I bumped into a guy…you don’t think…nah. It can’t be. This isn’t some espionage movie.” “Could he have overheard your conversation?” Jack asked, leaning back in his chair and looking up
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Parker was on a high. By all accounts, Atticus was on board with his proposal. Isaac just wanted to check in with the rest of the band before giving him a definitive answer. That was fine with Parker. Things would go much more smoothly if everyone was in agreement. The last thing he wanted was a hostile environment and if any of the members had misgivings about the proposal, then he would walk away. It would hurt, but he would do it. For this to work—for everyone involved—there had to be open communication and a willingness to participate. Without that, Parker may as well give up now. He climbed into his car, cursing the parking ticket and flapping on his windscreen. Getting out again, he grabbed it from under the windscreen wiper and shoved it into his glove compartment. The Playbook could pay for that. It was the price of doing business, after all. He turned the music up loud as he navigated through the heavy traffic toward his apartment building. He couldn’t wait to tell Ta
