Chapter 60. Stay With Me Tonight

Aaliyah’s POV

The soothing blue color appeared to be radiating from the walls of my office, as peaceful as the light of my laptop screen, but for a moment my focus had been distracted away from the spreadsheet on the desk before me. My eyes trailed up at the top of the screen, seething with the headline:

Scandal Rocks: C & A Fashion brand in Plagiarism Scandal, Anderson Empire in the Dock

“What the.” I breathed in deeply, clicking on the article, my heart racing.

I didn’t need to read the whole article to know who was behind it.

Parker.

Picking up my phone from the table, I leaned into my chair and called him. He picked up on the first ring as if he’d been sitting around waiting for me to call him.

“Lia,” he breathed, honey-sweet voice poison creeping in. “Miss me?”

“Drop the line, Parker. We need to talk, now.”

He laughed, and the sound pierced me with needles of ice. “Sure, how about dinner at Amara Hotel Suite 1509.