Wife by Day, Boss by Night by Thalia Quillspeak

Chapter 15

It just happened that they’d been waiting for ages at The Aerie, hoping to catch a glimpse of the clusive FireWing, but to no avail. They planned to swing by the Wright family for lunch, so Brian had instructed him to pick up a couple of boxes of pastries from here.

“Mr. Howard, would you like…”

Brian’s gaze settled on Natalie, and he fell silent in the car.

Natalie’s paper bag had been knocked from her hands, and as she looked up, her eyes flicked toward Gracia, who had pretended to be engrossed in her phone, feigning ignorance.

“Pick it up.” Natalie said in a low voice, devoid of emotion.

Instead, Gracia stepped on the pizza, kicking it aside.

“I said pick it up, not step on it.” Natalie continued, her voice still low.

“Are you talking to me?” Gracia acted surprised, pointing at herself and asking softly.

“I’m talking to a dog.” Natalie replied coldly.

“You…” Gracia was stunned, and then anger flared within her.

a dog would get upset by that.” Natalie said, the corners of

push it!” Gracia snapped back, and her

to mediate. “Don’t worry about it. It was our mistake for not handing it to the

wasn’t interested in acknowledging Gracia’s pettiness and nodded to the

Gracia, who got irked by Natalie’s indifference, insisted. “I’d like to see who dares to repack it for

stood by, not daring to

shop assistant?” Natalie turned to Gracia.

her eyebrows

see how much clout you have,” Gracia

her phone and dialed 911. “Let’s deal with this at the police station.

murmur, some

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the call button, she quickly grabbed her hand. Turning to the assistant, she commanded

content with her freshly packed pizza, ignoring Gracia, whose face had turned a shade of thunder. She hailed a cab at

her get into the cab, his emotions swirling. Natalie seemed different than

message from King. (They’ve upped

was

about Matthew coughing up blood the night before. He had terminal lung cancer, and it was beyond help. Every day alive was a