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“It’s different with each of them. Atlas is closest in age to me and a guy. Levi is our little brother, but there’s only two years, give or take. I’ve always been protective of Bella. I don’t know. Just different.”
“You love them a lot.”
“I would do anything for them. For any of my family,” I said and told her about my cousins who live in New York.
“Now that Bella has married into the Dufort family, they’re like an extension and the same goes for them.”
She turned to me. “You are very loyal.”
I nodded, kissed her, and tried to grab a nipple.
“Stop, they are sore.”
I kissed her head and turned the water on to make it warmer for her.
“What about you?” I asked, having an almost out-of-body experience knowing I’ve never asked a woman questions like this before. “Do you have siblings?”
Payton shook her head.
“No. My parents just had me. I was a surprise—a good one, they tell me—but both of them are lawyers and very career focused.”
I remember her comment in the limo the other night.
“They wanted you to be one, too.”
“Yup,” she said, moving the bubbles around on my knee. “Hence, needing this job. I did a year at law school, hated it, and then changed subjects.”
“And they were pissed,” I assumed.
“Dad was. He said I had to complete the marketing degree and stay in a job for two years or I would pay my entire cost of my studies back.”
“Ouch,” I replied.
“Yale.” She turned to me. “Three years of Yale, Knox. A lot. Hundreds of thousands.”
It would take the average person a fucking long time to pay that back. I hate that I was going to finish Payton up after the launch because I couldn’t keep my dick from wanting her.
I’m glad she told me.
Any temptation to do that is now off the table, obviously, but because it’s given me another piece of vital information. Payton was as invested in keeping our night together confidential as I was.
“Your dad must be proud of you,” she said.
“Yeah.” I laughed. “He is, but if he learned you were here right now, he’d be unimpressed.”
An understatement.
She turned to face me. “He’s hardly going to fire you.”
I brushed a strand of hair from her forehead. “Payton, my father is stepping down. Sleeping with beautiful young women at work is not exactly the behavior he expects from the future CEO.”
“Which is you.”
“Which... may be me,” I said, and my phone beeped interrupting us. I climbed out of the tub to check it.
I didn’t want to go into more detail than that with Payton. Who knew if she would gossip with her WME coworkers?
I hope she will keep all of this confidential and I’m sure she will after I understand what is at stake for her personally.
