“Fuck it,” I muttered, quickly typing out the message and hitting send.
Enzo: Hey, Sunshine. Thinking of you. Hope your time with Cole and Ellis was amazing.
I’d never been nervous sending a text before, but there I was, sitting behind my desk in my office at headquarters, my heart pounding as I waited for her reply.
“Mr. De Luca?” Heather buzzed in. She was taking up space at the front desk, vetting people who tried to get in to see me without appointments.
“What?” I snapped back into the intercom.
“Jade Michaels is here to see you, sir.”
“No.”
The intercom crackled.
“Sir, she said it’s urgent.”
I sighed and rubbed my eyes. I’d fired her. I told her not to come back, but here she fucking was. I needed to get this shit sorted.
“Send her in.”
A moment later, my door opened, and Jade stepped into the office wearing a short black skirt and cream blouse, her blonde hair in an elegant ponytail. A few months ago, I might have been interested in watching her walk toward me, but even that was hit-or-miss. Now it was definitely a miss.
I didn’t even realize she was holding a handful of papers until she tossed them onto my desk.
“What is this?” I demanded, not bothering to look down at them.
“Look at them,” she said.
I gave her a look of irritation before focusing on the papers. Magazines. Newspapers.
“What the fuck is this?” I murmured, my stomach twisting as I lifted and dropped each one with different headlines.
Rock Princess Bishop Caught Cheating With Billionaire CEO to Rustic Rifles!
Lorenzo De Luca and Bishop: Caught Red-Handed
The Fall of an Empire: Bishop Cheats on New Husband with Billionaire Playboy
Each headline screamed ugly words, but it was really the photos that got me.
They were from back when Rosalie and I were engaged. Definitely nothing new, but if people didn’t know Rosalie and me, then it was easy to assume they were recent.
I swallowed as I skimmed one of the articles.
“Bishop was recently seen at Mercy Medical. Lorenzo De Luca didn’t leave her side,” a source close to the rock princess says. “He stayed all night with her. An ugly brawl broke out when her husband, Anson, arrived, but security was quick to break it up.”
The Tribune has also learned the reason Bishop was hospitalized. According to sources, she is currently pregnant with her first child with Lorenzo De Luca. Sources say she and Anson Beyers, her husband and manager, are working on fixing their new marriage, but Lorenzo is making things difficult for the power couple.
Bile burned my throat as I read the article.
This was so FUCKED.
I threw the paper down.
“Why would you bring me this?” I asked, my voice shaking.
“Because I saw it all over the city. People are talking. Just because I don’t work here anymore doesn’t mean I don’t care about you. I’m here for you, Enzo. You need a friend right now. Someone to make this mess go away. I can be that person.” She slid onto my desk and leaned into me.
