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.

upset by that.” Natalie said, the

snapped back,

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

pettiness and nodded to

who got irked by Natalie’s indifference, insisted. “I’d like to

stood by, not daring to

picking on a shop assistant?” Natalie turned to Gracia. “If they don’t want to repack

what?” Gracia raised her

want to see how much clout you

spoke, she pulled out her phone and dialed 911. “Let’s deal with this at

began to murmur,

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Chapter 15

around, and when she saw Natalie’s finger hovering over the call button, she quickly grabbed her hand. Turning to the assistant, she commanded

her freshly packed pizza, ignoring Gracia, whose face

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

door, her phone buzzed with a message from King. (They’ve upped their offer to twenty times the original. Do

was brief.

her phone, she overheard the gardeners talking about Matthew coughing up blood the night before. He had terminal lung cancer,