All Chapters of A Mafia’s Trillionaire for Christmas : Chapter 41

OUT OF CONTROL.~LAUREN’S POV~My phone won’t stop vibrating. Text after text. Ping after ping. I don’t even have to look. I already know. News spreads fast in this office, but gossip? Gossip moves at light speed. And me slapping Patrick? That’s the kind of story people live for. I squeeze my eyes shut, inhaling deeply, pressing my palms against the cold surface of my desk. My skin is still burning. My hand tingles from where it connected with his face. I did it. I slapped him. God, what the hell was I thinking? I should’ve just walked away. I should’ve ignored him like I always do. But there was something about today—something about hearing him say those things, about watching him laugh at me like I was a joke, a footnote in his real love story—that broke something in me. And now, here I am. The office scandal of the day. I squeeze my phone in my hand, and against my better judgment, I open the group chat. Claire: “HOLY SHIT DID THAT HAPPEN?”David: “Confirmed. I sa