Beneath Her Bastard Boss

Chapter 16

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Blair glanced at the clock on her wall and was a little surprised to see that it was 5:45 pm. She hadn’t even realized. She had been busy catching up on all the meeting notes for Roman’s files and sending off any actioning emails from the meetings. Blair sat back in her chair and stretched out her back with! her arms raised in the air. Before relaxing again. She needed to call her sisters and with the door connecting her and Roman’s office closed, now seemed the best time.

Picking up her phone, she dialed Sutton’s number.

“Hi hon,” Came Sutton’s soft voice in her ear.

“Hey, how is my niece or nephew doing today?” Was the first question out of her mouth. Sutton’s pregnancy hadn’t been easy. She had had morning sickness nonstop for the first four months. Whoever had called it morning sickness had lied. Sutton had thrown up at anytime and often. She and Keira both believed part of it had been the stress of her ex leaving her pregnant and alone. God, she hoped so, because there was a chance she was pregnant as well. Not something she was ready to even truly think about.

“Moving like crazy.” Sutton said. “It was so hard to sit still at reception today.”

Sutton had been able to get a job as a receptionist in a company managing cyber security, about a five minutes‘ drive from Kingston’s. It was only temp work, but they had been unable to find someone to fill the role because of an employment freeze. Cyber10 had just been bought out, was the rumor. But until that was made public, it was all speculation. Cyber10 was the company Kingston used.

It was good for Sutton because she could stay in one job for longer. Temp work was all over the place and only for short periods, normally. The employment freeze had helped Sutton, at least.

Because Sutton was pregnant, no one wanted to hire a pregnant woman on a full–time basis, when they would likely take some time off after the baby was born. Sutton hadn’t let her ask Roman for a job. Blair couldn’t, not now that she was sleeping with him. It just felt wrong asking her boss she was now shagging to help her pregnant sister for a job. The silly thing was Sutton was very good with computers and working in reception just seemed a waste of her talents.

“How was the last checkup?” Blair asked. She had been unable to make Sutton’s last appointment. Keira had gone with their sister.

“Everything it fine. I’m to be careful of my blood sugar levels and stress over the next few months. But other than that, everything is fine. You know Keira. She would have called you straight away if there were any concerns.”

was right about that, so she decided to change the

Straight.” Blair heard Keira

she would only have to tell her news once to her sisters because they were together. “Can you put me on

sec…” there was a pause, then

it was. Their home had been sold to pay off debts after their parents‘ deaths. Who would have guessed their father had bankrupted the

crossed her fingers that they would go for moral support. Aunt Viv wasn’t easy to deal with alone and

worse.

“Unfortunately, why?” Sutton said.

broke it off with Dan.”

was a silence on the other end of the phone before Sutton asked.

say Laura because that would come out soon enough and knowing Sutton, she would ring Laura, giving her a piece of her mind. They would know the truth soon enough without her gossiping about it with her

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could also hear

think… I’m upset, but I think it’s better I found out now before we married.” Blair took a deep breath, trying to steady her racing thoughts. She knew she couldn’t reveal the truth about Roman just yet; it was all too fresh, too uncertain. She glanced at the rain–soaked sky outside. She didn’t even know if it was

him out?” Sutton asked after she had

where it was going to get hard to keep Laura out of the explanation of why she was the one to leave, not

her concern evident in

she would leave. “I found them in our bed,” she revealed, her voice tinged with disgust. “Every time I would walk into our bedroom, I would have seen

did you stay last night? Why didn’t you come here? Why didn’t you call us?” came questions