Tempted Trapped and Too Late to Run

Chapter 745

Chapter 745

The woman's lips twitched. Usually, lines like that were just clumsy pick-up

attempts—she'd been around long enough to know the type. But this reply? It was

a first.

Is this guy for real?

She sucked in a breath and walked away, her expression stormy.

Jackson, who'd watched the whole scene unfold, had to fight the urge to clap.

Nicholas still hadn't looked up from his phone, totally oblivious to Jackson sliding onto the barstool beside him.

"You've got guts," Jackson said, grinning. "That girl was obviously interested, and you just shut her down like it was nothing."

Nicholas barely glanced up, his mood already sour. "Scarlette's ignoring my calls. Maybe she's off with Morgan again. Lately, it feels like her job's more important than anything else, including me."

Jackson flagged down the bartender and ordered a drink, half-listening to Nicholas's rant about Scarlette. For some reason, his mind drifted to Kaitlyn.

thought people who couldn't let go were pathetic, so when Kaitlyn ended things, he'd

she'd left him alone, too. No calls. No texts. Not even a

expected it, but it still left

so wrapped up in each other that she'd

about to say

with some guy,

around his glass. His jaw

looking up at the

had that fresh-faced, clean-cut look-definitely the type

Clara, Eli, or Seth for weeks, so she'd spent every free moment scouting for new talent. She'd hit up every party, every event, hoping to find

like a college kid: bright eyes, easy

crowd. He reached out to take Kaitlyn's business

before he could grab it, someone

hand up to

flashed a lazy half-smile, twirling her card between his fingers. "On the hunt for new talent, Kaitlyn? I thought you and your husband were still in the honeymoon phase?

flicked over the young guy, cool and

stammered a quick apology,

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