“No one has to—I’ll be fine.”
“But she won’t,” Zairn said.“The second she walked in with that camera crew, you were it.”
And she still didn’t understand.
“You don’t have to cover for him,” Ariella said, “neither of you.He’s a good guy and I get he’d do anything to help me, but—”
“Cam again?”Zairn asked.“You work for him.How personal we talking?”
“No, not personal.We—”
“They’re a teensy bit personal,” Roxie said, pinching her thumb and forefinger close.“A little, itty bit.”
“Is this another one of your girls’ no sex things?Or only sex things?”
“Cam doesn’t have sex,” Roxie said to her husband then double checked.“He doesn’t have sex?”
Ariella answered, “Not with me.”
Roxie nodded once.“No sex.You can be personal without the sex.We weren’t having sex between the end of the tour and New Year’s, you think that gave you the green to screw around?”
“I loved you.No other woman existed.”
“Cam could love Ariella.”
Her real name was just thrown around and it jarred every time.
“We’re not doing this for Cam.”
“No,” Roxie said.“I know.I’m just saying.”The beauty blew out a breath.“Two years.I’d bet he’s finishing himself off in the bathroom after kissing her though.Phew, that was hot.”
The kissing.
“There was kissing?”Zairn asked.
“Yeah.”Roxie gasped.“But no one else saw it.I don’t know if Thena knows.”
“Mimi was in the room?”
“Not while there was kissing.”
“But with the two of them?”Zairn asked.“She’ll know.She has your radar plus a few decades.She knows.”
Ariella didn’t want to think about that.“I have to finish packing and I’m waiting for my boss to call.”
Though he hadn’t said if he’d get back to her that day, or that month.
“You don’t have to worry about work.”
“Uh, I think I do.My bills say I do.”
“You will pay them, if not with Brooker, then with Rouge.”
Rouge?Who exactly was Rouge?
“Cam’s not going to fire you,” Roxie said, then appealed to her husband.“Is he going to fire her?”
“It’s Cam, so, no.”
