Would Pixie like to stay for dinner this evening?
“OH MY GOD! He called you Pixie?! Fuck it’s happening!” She slaps my arm then falters. “But what’s happening?” She frowns. “Goddamn it, who cares!” Scarlet buzzes beside me and it makes me giggle, but I also have a lead weight pulling me back down to the ground—hard. Ellis is going to Mason’s this evening. At the penthouse. The only place I haven’t had to face since the night I found out I was pregnant.
“Will you calm down?” I swallow, needing her to chill before she sends me deeper into my anxiety.
“You have to go! You can ask him to the ball!” She claps.
I already know I’m going. This is the next step and something I told him I’d try, and I used Lowerwick to get that.
I go to the penthouse. He comes to Lowerwick.
Vinny slips back into the room and seats himself at the island next to Scarlet.
“Mason just asked Nina to dinner!” Scarlet tells him, not being able to control her mouth.
“He did?” He looks at me with a small smile.
“Yup! She’s going to ask him tonight if he will come to the ball. No! Wait! She is going totellhim tonight that heiscoming to the ball.” She grins, excited, and I can’t help but join her in her glee. Scarlet is one of the most infectious people I’ve ever met.
She could get Satan smiling.
“Don’t you just love it when a plan comes together?” Vinny lifts his chin to Scarlet, then turns to give me a wink.
I tilt my head a little, giving him a wary look.
The old fool is up to something.
And I bet it involves me, dinner, and the one place I’ve ever felt at home.
Mase
“We’re headed to lunch. We get to pop Jasmine’s sushi cherry today. You want anything?” George asks, poking his head into my office door. I spot Jasmine’s head from where she stands at his back.
“No. Redirect calls to Elliot.”
“Elliot left for the day.”
My head snaps towards him. “What?” I check my watch. “It’s twelve o’clock.”
“He said he had a meeting,” Jasmine adds, peeping under George’s arm which he moves to allow her room to stand next to him.
“Is everything okay, Mase?” George asks.
Meeting my ass. He’s been in and out of the office all week. Guaranteed he’s fucking someone new.
“Yeah, you guys head out.” I turn back to my screen but notice that they don’t leave. George looks at Jasmine and she hisses something back at him.
“What is it, George?”
“All it is, sir.” His head rears back. “Sir? Oh, I’ve never called you sir before.” He snorts a laugh.
“George,” I grind out.
“Right. So, we overheard you on the phone with Vinny. And?—”
“How?” I interrupt.
“How?” George’s brows dip low.
