Free Rush of Redemption (Rush Series #2) by LR Potter Page A

on
this day, the day of his engagement party, to yet again try and force his hand.
    When he’d pulled his
grandfather away from the party to blast him for inviting Arthur Grace
and  Marlena  Franklin to the party, his
grandfather hadn’t even tried to deny his culpability. He’s said she needed to
see how their life together would be. Rush closed his eyes briefly as anger
seared his insides. And when he’d come out of that meeting to hear  Marlena  say that Trinity had purposefully trapped him,
he’d snapped. He knew Trinity and knew she would obsess about that comment. He
needed to get her away and marry her before she had a chance to change her
mind.  Now, who was trapping whom , he thought.  God, what a colossal disaster.  He wanted nothing more
than to whisk her away from this house and these people.
    He was running through his
mind about when he’d possibly be able to slip away for a few days to marry her.
But he just didn’t know. Things were crazy at the moment with two separate
jobsites, in both the Caymans and Mexico. He knew he was going to be forced to
go to both, but he was trying to put the trips off until after he had Trinity
safely married to him. He didn’t know who he was kidding. Even if she married
him, there was no guarantee she’d stay.
    As he headed to the bar, he
was stopped at least a dozen times by those wanting to congratulate him. This
frustrated him as he desperately needed to get back to Trinity as soon as
possible. There was no telling what his grandfather or someone else might do.
Finally making it to the bar, he ordered a scotch on the rocks for himself and
a sparkling water for her. He leaned against the bar and drummed his thumbs
impatiently against its surface. He turned his head to where he’d left Trinity,
but she wasn’t there. He scoured the room looking for her. Maybe she’d gone to
the bathroom or had met up with  Sundra  or
Hunter. He saw  Sundra  still standing with
her parents and Hunter was on the other side of the room chatting up with a
leggy blonde.
    He felt someone slip their
arm around his and he heaved a sigh of relief. Turning, he was taken aback to
realize it wasn’t Trinity attached to his arm but Olivia Terry, the daughter of
an investment banker, and someone he’d dated several months previously… dated
being too strong of a word.
    “I guess congratulations
are in order,” she purred.
    Not wanting to appear rude,
but desperately wanting to remove the woman from his arm, he slipped his arm
away and turned to face her as casually as he could. Olivia Terry was closer to
his age of thirty and an amazingly beautiful woman. Her Italian heritage was
prevalent in both her dark hair and dark eyes.
    “Thanks, Olivia,” he
replied.
    “I must say I was…
surprised to hear the news. Who would have thought you’d ever settle down?”
    “It had to happen
sometime,” he replied lightly.
    “I don’t mind telling you
that I have my doubts about her,” she said with a shake of her head.
    “And why’s that?” he asked,
not really caring if she answered or not.
    “I think you’ll tire of her
easily. She looks too young and naive to me. Don’t forget… I know what you
like.” Leaning into him so that her breasts were pressed against him, she
whispered, “I’ll tell you what, once you’ve had enough and get bored, give me a
call.” As she spoke she lifted her hand to curl it around his neck. He reached
up to capture her hand and removed it from him. She pouted prettily, and as she
stepped back, she pulled a card out of her clutch and handed it to him. Without
glancing at it, he slipped it into his coat pocket.
    “I wouldn’t sit by the
phone, Olivia. I’m in it for the long haul.”
    “We’ll see. Things change…”
she drifted off as she moved away.
    Rush shook his head and
sighed, happy Trinity wasn’t close enough to have overheard that particular
conversation. She had enough to deal with.
    Finally able to grab his
drinks, he moved