Kerris POV
The desk phone must have rang, and I didn't hear it because I was so focused on Zach.
His gaze moves between me and his girlfriend. He doesn't look pleased. My stomach doesn't feel right and not because I was starving a moment ago. What I feel now is in fact, far from hunger. I wonder how often she gives him this type of surprise.
"You are Miss Hart, right?" Madison asks.
"Yes,” I would have held out my hand for a proper introduction, but I dread shaking her hands. “Pleased to meet you, Miss Marlowe. I... didn't hear the phone ring to inform us of your arrival."
"I'm sure you didn't,” she replies curtly. “This is a surprise for my man." She smiles at Zach who waits awkwardly by his desk. "I heard a strange rumor. Something about a prostitūtion scandal. Zack, that's why I ca
