Beneath Her Bastard Boss

Chapter 32

Chapter 32

Chapter 32

“Where are we going?” Roman asked, his tone casual, but his grip on the wheel was anything but.

Blair barely looked at him. “The diner in town.”

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Silence settled between them, thick with unspoken tension. Roman followed Keira’s car as the town blurred past with old storefronts, familiar streets to her, but she didn’t pay them any attention.

Her fingers tapped restlessly against her thigh. Roman drove with one hand on the wheel, the other resting on his leg. exuding that infuriating calmness that only made her feel more unsettled.

Because he was the reason, she was still buzzing. She was angry with him, but she wasn’t at the same time.

She hated it.

She hated that even now, after everything, he could still make her feel safe and wanted and completely out of control.

Roman finally glanced at her. “You’re quiet.”

Blair huffed. “Maybe because I don’t know where to start.”

“Then just start.” His voice was steady. Unapologetic.

Her head whipped toward him. “Fine. What the hell was that Roman?”

His grip on the wheel tightened. “What part?”

She shot him a look. “Oh, I don’t know. The part where you nearly strangled Dan? Or the part where you dropped a nuclear bomb on my family when I told you I would handle it?”

His jaw ticked. “I was done listening to them speak to you like that. Done with Dan, thinking he could manipulate you. He needed to be put in his place.”

Blair’s chest clenched. “That wasn’t your decision to make.”

“The hell it wasn’t.” His voice was rough, clipped. “He deserved worse, and you know it.”

She did. God, she did. But that wasn’t the point.

“I didn’t need you to fight my battles, Roman.”

His eyes flicked toward hers, sharp and unreadable. “Maybe not. But I’m never going to stand there and watch people try to tear you down.”

Blair swallowed hard.

Damn him.

Damn him for saying things like that. For making it impossible to stay mad when she wanted to be.

me. I hadn’t told my sisters about us. I

wasn’t going to confess.

Yeah. She did.

that wasn’t the only

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not-” She

beat, then murmured, “No, I really did go look at a house. Then I started to worry about

tone made her

fingers drummed against the wheel like he was holding

the tension in her chest

with him. And the truth was, she wasn’t

Just… overwhelmed.

back, watching him out of the corner of her eye. “You know, Keira was right. It was pretty

twitched.

rolled her eyes. “Don’t make me regret

darkening as he

Her breath caught. “What?”

think I’m

like that. The frustration, the irritation twisted into something else

without warning, he pulled the car

hand was in her hair, pulling

wasn’t soft. It wasn’t

It was desperate.

of kiss that erased the rest

tangling in her hair like he had

help her, she didn’t

apart, breathless, Roman rested his

“Feel better?” he murmured.

a laugh. “I’m not sure sitting with my sisters

lips quirked. “That’s a

but she couldn’t stop the

“Drive, Roman.”

the car

something close to peace settle

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Damn him.

for being impossible

diner hadn’t changed

checkered floors. Same

in before her sisters waved

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