Free Seducing the Bodyguard by Capri Montgomery Page B

woman before, but he needed help with this woman. He had thought that she couldn’t resist him forever, but now he was starting to wonder about that. The more he tried, the more she fortified that stone wall guarding her heart.
    Tonight was a night with the guys. He always had at least one night in each location to just sit back and have game night with four of the trusted men working with his show, putting everything they physically could into keeping it going strong so that they had a long and successful run. Usually they went out on the town or ordered in pizza and had drinks in one of their rooms. It was his turn to pick a venue and given the fact that if he chose an outing at a club, bar or restaurant he knew Valencia wouldn’t be more than two feet away from him, he decided on his room. They picked up pizza on the way back to the hotel, and Les was on beer duty so he didn’t have to worry about that. Valencia had agreed to stay hidden in her room after the men arrived so long as there were no unexpected guests. She had already checked out his crew and the cast and while she wasn’t completely unsuspicious of any of them, she seemed to relax, even if only a little, when it came to Les, Jeremiah, Chester and Drew. Actually, he wouldn’t jump right to saying she relaxed, so much as he would say she allowed him some breathing room around them. Of course he could always tell she was vigilant to her surroundings, waiting and ready for any attack that may come.
    He had told her several times that nothing was going to happen. He was safe. The letters weren’t still arriving. He had even put her mind at ease over his former assistant. The woman was crazy, but she wasn’t that crazy. Lani Davison had taken his trust and stolen from him in a way that he couldn’t forgive. He didn’t want to believe Jeremiah when he told him that he had seen Lani with Deveroe Johnson, one of his opera nemeses, but he also didn’t think the man had any reason to lie to him. Jeremiah was a standup guy, straightforward and honest, so he took his word as truth. He set up one of those nanny cameras in a vase in his office and he waited. A week later he caught her going into his private drawer, not just going into it, but picking the lock to get in. Fortunately he hadn’t had his newest opera in the drawer so she didn’t get his newest work and sell it to Deveroe, but she could have and would have had Jeremiah not warned him. After that he vowed he would never trust a female assistant again. She seemed sweet and honest in her, “I just love opera and want to work in the business any possible way that I can,” speech. She had even laughed at her inability to sing. “So this is the only way,” she had said. “And I love all of your work, so if you’ll have me…please have me,” she had crossed her legs on those words and his mind had gone elsewhere. He had hired her because she looked good on paper, but he couldn’t deny that he had also hired her because she looked good off paper too.
    He hadn’t slept with Lani. He hadn’t even tried. Although she was definitely the type of woman, physically, that he would have gone for. She had long black hair, nice voluptuous breast, striking blue eyes and legs that went on for days. She was five-nine, which he liked because he was tall himself. Her skin was smooth, but pale. She didn’t tan well, but that porcelain look fit her well. The only thing that kept him from trying for more with her was the fact that he had hired her on with the company. He didn’t date anybody in the company. While he had thought of breaking his own rule once or twice, he never allowed himself to do that. Now he was glad he hadn’t. The moment he fired her, Lani said she was go to the press and say he was sexually harassing her. He told her to have at it because he had a tape that showed her breaking into his locked desk, stealing a binder with his work inside, granted old work, but still his work none the less, and