Riggs laughs. “She what?”
I nod. “Told me to stay outta her way and she’d do the same. Can you believe that?”
“Man, I know you. If you wanted her, really wanted her, there ain’t no way you’d have left just because she told you to.”
“Fuck women,” I mutter as I stand. “I’m done. It’s why I don’t get involved. Too complicated.”
That night, I lay in bed wide awake. I’m not sure why I’m so pissed at Eva. I didn’t want it to go anywhere and she made it easy. That’s a good thing. But I can’t get her outta my head.
Chapter Seven
Eva
By Friday lunchtime, my mood is not good. I know I told Cree to stay away, but now that he actually is, I’m pissed. How dare he fuck me like a club whore and then walk out like it was nothing? “Kyle, let’s get drunk tonight,” I sigh.
“You know you don’t have to ask me twice, baby girl.”
Next, I send off a text message to Anna. She asks if she can bring Leia. The more the merrier as far as I’m concerned.
Michelle saunters out of her office followed by her husband. I haven’t seen him since I kneed him in the balls, but it did the trick because he didn’t even look in my direction when he arrived ten minutes ago to collect Michelle. “Eva, the contracts you emailed over for me to sign are littered with mistakes,” she sneers. I checked and double-checked because I know I’m not on the ball just lately. “It’s like you’re trying to lose my important clients.”
“I’ll take another look, but I checked them over before I sent them.”
“Clearly not well enough,” Callum cuts in coldly. “You’re lucky my wife is so forgiving. I’ve fired staff for less,” he sneers.
“I apologise, Michelle. I’ll start going over them again.”
“And you can forget your early finish. Friday is still a workday, especially when you have so much to do,” she says. “Kyle, I’m out of the office for the rest of the day. Make sure she keeps my diary clear,” she adds as they leave. Callum throws a cold glare over his shoulder.
“Fuck,” mutters Kyle. “Do you think she knows about the whole knee to balls incident?”
“If she does, then I want to be the one to explain why the hell I did it. He totally hit on me.”
“Some women don’t mind that. Oh my god, what if she goes to the sex club? What if they’re swingers!” says Kyle, and I screw my face up in distaste.
“Then she really can’t behave like this just because I turned them down. There are laws in place for shit like that,” I huff.
“Send me a couple of the contracts and I’ll help. I want an early finish if we’re out partying tonight.” I smile gratefully. ”Do you think her boyfriend dumped her? Maybe the lack of extra sex is sending her into bitch mode,” adds Kyle.
Thinking about Cree and Michelle makes me shudder. Why did I let him have sex with me after what I saw him doing to her?
It takes us the rest of the afternoon to go over the contracts. I found one spelling error out of all five contracts, so they were hardly littered with mistakes. I’m wound up, to say the least, when I send them back over to her knowing she’s clearly targeting me for whatever reason. The trouble is, I don’t know if that reason is because of Callum or because Cree’s told her about us.
Anna managed to convince Riggs to let her go further afield, and so tonight, we’re hitting up central London. “This beats Queen’s Road’s bars,” smiles Leia.
“I’m shocked you convinced Riggs to let you both leave Queen’s Road,” I say.
“Um, I’m pretty sure he’ll have someone keeping an eye on us from a distance,” says Leia, and Anna nods in agreement.
The wine bar is bright and full of optics that give it an upmarket feel. The furniture is white shiny plastic and the bar is made of white marble. The first round of drinks costs enough for me to suck in a shocked breath, but luckily, I have my credit card because I have every intention of forgetting this week in a cloud of alcohol.
We stand around a tall table because this kind of place doesn’t have many normal size tables with chairs. I fill Anna and Leia in briefly about my week from hell with Michelle. “She sounds like a complete bitch!” says Leia.
“She’s a dragon,” Kyle chimes in. “She swans around with her nose in the air and her bouncy blond hair perfectly styled. Her husband is a complete ass. You know just by looking at him that he’s a cheat and a liar.”
“It doesn’t excuse the way she’s behaving with you, Eva. Have you told Cree?”
I glare at her, having not told Kyle about Cree. His eyes burn into me. “What am I missing?”
I groan. “The guy that Michelle is seeing is Cree.”
“Cree that you slept with!” he screeches, and then Anna and Leia stare at me in shock.
“Okay, so maybe I’ve not divulged everything about my week,” I mutter. “This is what happens when you move, Anna. I don’t have anywhere to go at night and offload.”
“I’m a fifteen-minute walk away,” she laughs. “Now, spill the juice.”
I go over the Sunday I spent with Cree and his insistence at spending the day with me. I tell them about his odd behaviour and his hot and cold moods. “And then I went on a date with Chris,” I say. “Because I thought, why the hell am I letting Cree rule my life. He doesn’t really want me in that way, so I had dinner with Chris.”
“And Cree knew?” says Leia. I nod. “I’m shocked Chris is still walking. I’ve seen how crazy Cree can be,” she adds.
“Cree broke into my house. He was there when I got home and I was yelling at
