A Deal of the Heart

Chapter 13

Hi Everyone!

I know, I know; its been a age between posts and i really apologise, i just hadnt been feeling the creative juices lately as well as trying to edit another book.

I've added this chapter but hadnt been able to get the next part to where i wanted so i'll post that after the weekend.

Thank you for still reading!

Charli x

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Luisa didn't see Christian again for the rest of the week, at least not for any long period of time.

He swaggered in and out of her offices whenever he needed to speak to her and even then, it was always about work. She knew of course that work was the most important thing, but they had left things badly and she hated that he thought so low of her.

She knew she had a lot of issues with her family that she had to deal with but surely how she dealt with them was her business.

Suddenly, she got very annoyed.

Why did she even care?

What Christian Tyler thought of her, was completely irrelevant.

They had their presentation to work on before the PropCon in Monaco and of course the dinner tomorrow night.

The dinner!

She'd completely forgotten that there was to be a dinner with all the potential investors and clients the following evening and Christian was meant to be her date.

It would have been a business event either way of course, but once they'd slept together; their relationship had changed. It would have very much been a date and now that he seemingly hated her, it was going to be incredibly awkward.

I don't need this!

Luisa thought to herself. She wasn't the best with men when the relationship was going well and now that this...whatever it was; was happening in whatever it is they were to each other; she was even more clueless.

Luisa slammed her fist on the table, knocking some stationary over,

"Is everything okay?"

Luisa was startled as she looked up and saw Lily looking over at her with concern.

She hadn't even heard her knock,

"What is it Lily!" she snapped at her and immediately regretted it. She had tried to be nicer to Lily when all she ever did was help her and deal with Luisa's attitude.

"E-erm Mr Tyler said to give you a message." Luisa stopped before slowly rearranging her desk, trying to act like she didn't want the message this very instance.

"Why couldn't he tell me himself?"

"H-he l-left. He said he had a dinner meeting with a friend."

A friend? Probably a woman, Luisa thought to herself.

"Well, what was the message or do I have to draw that out of you too!"

So much for being nicer to Lily.

"He said he would pick you up for the investor dinner at your house at 8."

Would he now?

Luisa dismissed Lily with an impatient shake of her hand before steepling her fingers and resting her chin on them.