The next morning Gerald sat behind his desk with a fresh cup of coffee that had already gone cold. The city looked the same from his office windows, but the weight from last night still sat on his shoulders. He kept seeing Lily’s face when he kissed her. He kept feeling the way her body had responded to him. It was becoming a problem.
Mako walked in without knocking and dropped into the chair across from him.
“We have a mess,” Mako said.
Gerald leaned back. “Talk.”
“Cleo has been busy since the party. She is telling anyone who will listen that Lily is nothing but a paid s*x toy. A temporary hole you bought for fun. Before she started talking, people were actually starting to believe you might be serious about the girl. They had never seen you act like that over a woman before. You clai
