Missing Mrs. Lowry: The Billionaire’s Wakeup Call

Chapter 45

Their bodies were pressed close together, rubbing against one another

To say Megan felt nothing would have been a lie. But she couldn’t deny her aversion to Sullivan, so she made an excuse, “The event starts at seven, and you care so much about that project. You wouldn’t want to be late, right?”

Upon hearing this, Sullivan eased his grip on her. He glanced at her reflection in the mirror, a wry chuckle escaping his lips, “Mrs. Lawry, you sure know how to kill the mood.”

But the immediate crisis had been overted.

The ride back was silent.

At seven in the evening, Sullivan’s sleek black Bentley glided into the Lambert Estate. He stepped out and opened the door for Megan. As she bent to exit the car, Sullivan took her hand.

She couldn’t help but look up at him.

They locked eyes under the grand lights, amid the whispering night breeze.

Sullivan tightened his grip on her hand, pulling her close and whispering in her ear, “Stick with me tonight. Don’t go charming any other

understand?”

men.

words betrayed a possessive

against his shoulder, Megan spotted

under the porch light, a glass of red wine in his hand, his gaze dark and fixed on

lips trembled slightly as she embraced

before he

no fool. He gently lifted her chin, his voice dangerously husky, “Learning to play the game,

away, “Sullivan,

Lowry” Then he led

along. They even danced together at the gala, earning rounds of

billing her as the

Megan’s status, Mrs. Lambert boasted with a bit of bluster “I’ve heard that Paxton is coming back. Everyone knows he’s favored student, but do you

only known to her,

got a

give face to Mrs. Lambert and partly to test the truth, Megan, in her ethereal designer gown, graced the green, the lights around

the end of the piece, no one doubted Mrs. Lambert’s words anymore, not even Mrs. Lambert

was the one Paxton had been looking for!

bowed in

– a mix of lewd desire and possessiveness that

that gaze. She feigned a