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that someone will hear. He starts to tell me that I shouldn’t care about other people’s opinions when he breaks off abruptly. I turn to see what has caught his attention, and the world freezes. Nick is looking at a series of four large photos. In each photo a different woman appears nude and brutalized. The one that has captured Nick’s interest is a picture of a woman who looks just like me. If I didn’t know that I had never posed for this picture, I could even believe that it was me. I stare at the picture in horrified stupefaction.
    Nick reaches down and grips my hand tightly. “Lainey, this is creepy. Let’s get out of here.”
    We slip past one group after another until we finally find ourselves out on the sidewalk. I stand there speechless. Nick looks down at me with concern. “Come on. Let’s get you home.”
    I know that it will upset Nick to see how shaken I am over the incident so I try my best to hide it from him. Once we reach my apartment, I distract him by asking him to pick out a dress for me to wear to the gala evening that I am attending with James tomorrow night. Thinking of James settles my frayed nerves. I think back to how foolishly I had acted this week by trying to keep our relationship under wraps at the office. My attempt to avoid him at the office had failed miserably. I smile as I recall the events of this past week.
    When James asks if I can have lunch with him, I put him off for the second day in a row. I feel awful. A message pings on my computer reminding me to come to the Washington Conference Room for some birthday cake. It is Bethany’s birthday. I debate skipping the celebration, but I don’t want to appear unfriendly. Walking past the open door of James’s office, I glance in, but it appears empty. I enter the conference room to find James surrounded by his fan club, eating a slice of cake. I take a piece and join the group. James smiles at me mischievously, and I wonder what he is up to. He flirts and laughs, and Bethany and Becca are eating it up. Although James attempts to draw me into the conversation a few times, I keep my distance.
    I leave the group to go and talk to Alex, who cocks his head towards James. “He’s quite the office heart throb.”
    I roll my eyes. “Tell me about it.”
    My phone pings with a text. I look down and see that it is from James.
    I know what you are doing.
    Puzzled, I glance over in James’s direction, but he is not looking at me. I put my phone down on the conference table and take a bite of the vanilla birthday cake. The butter cream icing melts in my mouth. I am about to take another bite when James steps in front of me. He takes the small paper plate with cake out of my hands and sets it on the table. Before I can react, he swoops down and bends me back. My arms fly up to his neck. James leans over me and covers my mouth with his in a scorching kiss worthy of a Hollywood movie.
    As usual, my reaction to James’s touch is instantaneous, and a searing heat pours through me. James pulls back slightly and looks down at me with a satisfied smile. I am still bent over backwards, and if James were to release me I would topple over into a heap on the floor. I distantly become aware of the utter silence that surrounds us. I whisper, ““James, let me up.”
    He pulls me up so that I am standing, but keeps his arm around my waist. Every single pair of eyes in the room are locked on us with varying degrees of shock. James leans over close to my ear and whispers, “Try keeping us a secret now.”
    I whip my head around and narrow my eyes at James. He had done this on purpose and outed us in the most public way possible.
    Bethany is the first to find her voice. “What about Elizabeth?”
    I feel James’s arm tighten around me. “I have never been with Elizabeth. Not in the past and not now.”
    A gasp from the doorway of the conference room has everyone looking that way. Elizabeth stands there looking as pale as a ghost. Everyone waits with