Seven Nights of Sin (Penthouse Affair #2)

“Presley,” Oliver says.

I’m standing in clear view now, my eyes glued to the television. I don’t even know when my feet carried me into the room, but Oliver’s spotted me.

“Why are you . . .”

But I can’t hear him. The anchors casually toss grenades back and forth with their words—phrases like “outed by an anonymous source” and “public shame” and “reputation on the line.” I can barely make sense of it.

Dominic’s face is angled away from me, and I look at him imploringly, unable to read him. I just want to know what terrible thoughts are running through his head right now. His body is pulled tight like a string, like he’s about to snap.

Oliver sighs, pulling me out of my tunnel vision. When we make eye contact, he lets loose a strangled sort of laugh. “Well . . . this is awkward. Are you guys together?”

Dominic says, “No,” at the same moment I say, “Yes.”

My face flushes hot with emotion. Well, that’s humiliating.

Oliver takes that as his cue to leave.

the door behind him, he

The door clicks shut.

breath, processing everything that’s just

him almost makes me laugh. If he could, Dominic would do everything himself. I don’t know how he’s going to get out of this

“No.”

Dominic’s hollow answer to Oliver’s question about us resounds through me. Staring at the stony

as he cares for me, for my body, or for my popularity with his daughters . . . he will never make room for me in his life. He has told me in so many different ways, so many different times over the past couple of months. Every time we had

of my calm, and my eyes flood with angry tears. You tried so hard, Presley. You’ve done everything you can for him. He’s made it clear he doesn’t want

his voice hoarse,

“TV?”

sound

time to shut the TV off. It would be horrible for the girls to see their father like this, even though

TV. Let’s go back to bed,” he says firmly. His voice is clear and calm, like he wasn’t just about to break my heart

what he’d say. I can’t have more complications. And he would be right. He has two daughters and an entire company to look out for in the

his and turns her back toward her