Page 85 of Off Limits Mogul

“You had me worried there.”

“Just keeping you on your toes,” I say.

He chuckles.

“No one pestered you?”

That was my big concern.

“No. No one recognized me. I went incognito today. I used a baseball cap to hide my face, and I asked Phoebe and Arianneto call me by my middle name, Eve, instead of Keira. Small things that make a big difference.”

“Good,” he says.

“Funny, there was a time, that’s all I wanted—to be recognized—now, I want the complete opposite.”

“You just need time to ease back into it.”

“I’ll be skittish for a while.”

“There’s no rush. You’re back at Phoebe’s?” He changes the subject.

“I am.”

“What are you girls up to?”

“We were going to go out to a salsa club, but we’re pooped from running around,” I say. “We decided to stay in. We’ve been drinking and playing truth or dare.”

“God save us all.”

I ponder for a fraction of a second before diving right in… liquid courage and all.

“Have you been avoiding me all week, Rhys?”

Silence.

I answer for him. “You have been avoiding me.”

“Let’s get on a video call.”

My stomach twists in a knot at his suggestion.

Shit.

I should’ve kept my big mouth shut.

“Okay,” I say.

A second later, his handsome face fills the screen. “Your hair hasn’t changed.”

“Tomorrow is spa and hair day.”

“Got it.”

We stare at each other for a beat.

“Aren’t you going to answer my question?”

His lips twist. “I was avoiding you.”