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Chapter 16
It was finally Friday, a month after Julian had taken Sia fabric shopping.
It was also the day of the fashion show, and Sia was nervous as hell.
“Relax Mom, everything is going to be fine,” Leo reassured his mother, but that hardly calmed her nerves.
“Is she always like this before a show?” Julian asked from beside Leo, careful to keep his voice down so only the boy could hear him.
“Yup!” he answered, popping the p.
Sia took a deep, shaky breath and sat down in her private makeup van and finally looked at the two.
Over the past four weeks, the pair had become as thick as thieves. It had started the day after she’d told Julian she couldn’t play this game with him and he openly challenged her to resist his charms. The next day, she had woken up to find Julian and Leo playing basketball. She had been jealous, of course. She was the one who taught him how to play, and now her son had someo
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“You go ahead. I’ll be there in a minute,” Sia told the man with the clipboard and then waited ‘till he was gone before turning to the others. “Leo, honey, go ahead and sit in the VIP section. Millan’s there and Julian has assigned someone to go with you.”Seeing the torn expression on Sia’s face, Julian quickly said, “Don’t worry, my men will watch after him.”She hesitated at first but then nodded her head in defeat. With a hug and a few kisses, she finally let Leo go, leaving her and Julian alone in the dressing van.“And where’s mine?” Julian said with a raised eyebrow. He expected to receive a heated glare or a gritted out insult. Hell, he even expected to get slapped across the face.However, Sia suddenly pulled him down by the collar of his jacket and kissed the sense out of him. Her lips were soft and they tasted of strawberries that Julian had learned was the flav
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Julian went to the exit door and met Abhay at the back of the auditorium. He had already warned all his men inside the auditorium to keep their eyes glued to Sia since he was only going to step out for a moment to check on the men he had situated at any possible point of entry and exit within the area. As soon as he reached Abhay after doing a perimeter sweep, he earned a whistle from the other devil.“Not bad, Lucifer. The designer seems to be doing a good job on your fashion sense,” Abhay mocked while giving Julian a once-over.“You’re not bad yourself, Beelzi.” Julian smirked as Abhay made a face at the nickname.Since the two of them were known as troublemakers, their team liked to call them with special nicknames. If Julian was Lucifer, then Abhay was Beelzebub. The bad boys from hell. Although Abhay didn’t have quite a reputation as Julian, he had earned the nickname because of his close friendship with Julian. But nickn
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