Against the Rules by Ella Goode Page 0,16

mine but I turn my head, looking away. I have to get out of here. I grab my purse before powering off my computer.

“I’ll see you tomorrow,” I tell Cesar as I stand up. Out of the corner of my eye I see that they are still standing at his door. Why can’t they go into his office? Why does he have to shove his date in my face? After his crazy ass said he wanted to marry me. I guess he’s on to the next. That thought has me turning angry.

“Lucky.” I turn to see Kevin heading my way. “Are you out of here?”

“Yeah.” I put my purse on my shoulder.

“You want to grab a drink?” I start to say no but I hear the pretty blonde laugh. What is she laughing at? He’s not even funny. He’s annoying.

“I think I would like to go out for a drink. Let me go home and change first. I know the perfect place we can go. My cousin can get us in.” I know that what I’m doing is crazy, but I can’t help myself.

“Let me get your number.” Kevin pulls out his phone and I ramble off my number. I can swear I feel someone staring at me. I look over my shoulder and Finn jerks his gaze away from me. He steps back into his office, the blonde going with him before the door closes.

My heart drops. This is a bunch of bullshit. I shouldn’t care. I text B.J. back when she tells me she has a fancy place she can get me into tonight.

I’m going to have to raid her closet when I get home. If I am going to do this, I’m going to go all out.

I rush home to find something to wear. It’s not as easy as I thought it would be. I end up back in my own closet grabbing my petal pink dress and slip on my silver flats before I head into the bathroom to touch up my makeup and hair.

“What am I doing?” I ask myself in the mirror. There is no way I can compete with that woman. I’m more mad at myself than anything. I shouldn’t care but the truth is I do care. A lot.

This might be for the best. If Finn can jump from one girl to the next he'll end up breaking my heart after he gets tired of me. It doesn’t mean that I can’t shove my own date in his face. I know it’s petty, but I don’t care.

What I don’t understand is why he would go to all of that trouble. Practically making a spectacle of himself to get my attention and then just flip a switch and be on to the next. I need to stop obsessing about this. What’s done is done. Well, it will be after I rub my date in his face tonight.

My phone dings with a text from Kevin. I text him back letting him know where to meet me. If Finn O’Hare is going to play with my heart, then I am going to play with his too.

Chapter 13

Finn

“Let me get this straight. You’re hiring me to make your secretary jealous in hopes that she’ll make a move on you because you’re not allowed to as her boss, but I can’t touch you and I can’t do anything that I wouldn’t want to see a girl do with my man.”

I fiddle with the cuff link on my black shirt before answering, “You’ve got it. You okay with that?” Rydell’s idea had merit but I didn’t want to turn Lucky off, either. There’s two ways to do takeovers. The first and easiest method is with a hammer. You go in and destroy everything—or everyone—that stands in your way. The second way is through finesse. The latter takes longer but you end up with a better long tail to your investment because you have fewer enemies and people that want to stab you in the back. You can only do the first one so many times before you can’t sleep at night because you have to keep one eye open. Obviously, this situation calls for careful handling or Lucky will take one look at me, decide I’m trash and not worth her while.

The hired escort Rydell sent over nods. “Are you kidding? Easiest five grand I’ve ever made.” My driver appears on her side and opens the door. Celine unfolds her body and climbs out of the car, waiting