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She sighed as she sank down on the couch once more in Garrett’s office. She was, it appeared, becoming a regular in his office. “You know Garrett, I do have to go home at some point, and face the crowd of reporters. I should probably just get it over and done with. I’m certain you
have plans for Christmas that are being interfered with now.”
“Mm, plans can be changed, Harmony.” He nodded at her.
“Mine certainly did.” She agreed, and how could she not? Her life over the past three years
was, it seemed, a complete lie.
She felt his hands wrap around hers and looked at him. She could see the apologetic look on
his face, and he only managed a half smile at her. “Maybe, I’m partly to blame for that.” He
sighed a little.
“What? How could you be? Damien was the one to cheat on me and get caught.” She
muttered.
“Hmm, he was…but I was the one that sent you the footage of him cheating on you.” He told
her as he looked right at her, still had that apologetic look on his face.
“What, how could you know what happened that night?” she frowned at him.
“Harmony, I own the Triple Moon nightclub.” He told her.
She had forgotten that, with all that was going on, and now sat staring at him, there was
silence in the room as she absorbed this news, and recalled Damien’s words today. ‘What
didn’t you show her all the footage, kept her own despicable behaviour of that night from her
did you?‘ but then she sighed, it really wasn’t Garrett’s fault, he had been the one to open her
eyes was all.
“You didn’t make him cheat, he did that all on his own. To be honest, Garrett, I’m glad that you
sent me that footage. It opened my eyes to what was going on. Otherwise, I would still be with
him, think this baby is his even.” And how could she not if she had no proof of his cheating
ways.
“I was there in the club that night, Harmony. I saw your tears and how upset you were, as well
as your anger…”
“Do you know?” she looked right at him now. If he was there and saw her he might know who
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she’d been with, who the father of her child was “Who… I…” she sighed, didn’t like to think of
herself that way, but she had clearly slept with someone that night. “I was with?” she finally-
asked.
“Yes, it was all caught on video as well.” Garrett nodded at her. “Do you want to see it?”
Her eyes widened at this knowledge, her own s*x act was in that club, and it had been recorded, and her boss, the man sitting right in front of her, had seen it. She felt heat burn her cheeks as she was filled with utter embarrassment. Dropped her eyes away from him, she didn’t even remember that night, yet Garrett Owens had watched it for himself.
“I’m sorry.” She muttered, mortified by this knowledge, she was never going to be able to look him in the eyes ever again. She didn’t know what her behaviour was like, let alone how she’d
been with that man, whoever he was either.
“I’m not.” He told her gently and moved from the coffee table to sit next to her. He tilted her face up to make her look at him, “Not in the slightest, I have a lovely memory of that night.” He
told her.
“Something good happened to you? That night!” she asked quietly.
“Yes,” he smiled a little at her, “I met you that night.” He reached out a hand and tucked some of her loose hair back behind her ear “Perhaps Harmony, you falling into my lap, full of tears,
was fated to be.”
“W… What?” her eyes widened, and she looked away from him, as she thought about those words, falling into his lap? Her brain was racing now. Was her new boss the man she’d had s*x
with? Was Garrett Owens the father of her child?
Her mind was racing back to how he’d treated her, since the day she’d arrived here to start work, he’d not treated her any differently to his other employees, she didn’t think. If it was him, surely there would have been some kind of awkwardness that came from him, especially seeing that she didn’t recall it.
Her eyes moved to his once more, and she bit her lip. Did she dare to ask, or should she plead
ignorance?
“Just ask Harmony, I’ll tell you the truth. Show you the truth, if you want to see it.” Garrett told her simply, “So, you know I’m not lying to you. Which I won’t. I will also always protect you
from the Blackwell’s.”
“Are you?…” she bit her lip again, “were you…” how did she phrase this? “Did you…take me home that night?” she murmured, unable to actually say what needed to be said. She was still
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more than shocked about what he was implying.
“Yes, Wyatt and I, took you home.” He nodded and she stared at him now.
“Wyatt’s married.” She gasped, shooting up on to her feet at the thought of her and the two of them popping into her brain. Her body had ached like she’d had a lot of s*x that night. What
if?…
Garrett chuckled softly and pulled her back down. “Yes, he is. He is also faithful to his wife,
loves her. I can assure you of that, I’d also beat him senseless if he wasn’t.”
She raised an eyebrow at him now, knew he was joking and trying to lighten the mood, but
still.
“You only spent time with one person that.night. And it was after what you saw Damien doing.
He told her with a half–smile.
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Her eyes were on him nervously as she finally asked, “Who was it?” but she couldn’t keep that slight tremor out of her voice.
“You’re looking at him, Harm.” He murmured, “Your revenge against Damien was with me.”
“Revenge?” she frowned at him.
“Mm, you wanted to hurt him, and I offered to help you,” he nodded.
Harmony closed her eyes, she’d had s*x with Garrett Owens that night, fallen into his lap, from his words and just latched on to him, apparently. “In the club?” she needed to know if it was
there or in her apartment.
“Yes, in my VIP room, next door to the room where Damien was with Chloe.” Garrett nodded at
her.
“And he knows this? Saw us I can only guess.” She muttered.
“Yes, walked right in and…” he smiled a little more at her now “it was right at the moment I took you for myself.” he smiled even more at her now.
“Why do I get the feeling you actually find that amusing?”
“Because honestly, Harmony. It does amuse me, he deserved to see it. After what you had to see, there’s more though.” He chuckled softly.
“Great.” She muttered, it was no wonder Damien had called her that horrid word, stated he’d seen her with some random guy…that thought stopped her, and she looked at Garrett now with curiosity, “Did he know it was you? I mean…who you were, as in… Garrett Owens of Owens
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Construction.” She asked now as her brain ticked.
“Yes, I told him I was the owner of the nightclub, after I came out of that room to deal with
him, you were passed out on the floor on my rug…so very beautiful, even when a complete
mess.” He reached out and tugged her ear a little as he smiled at her.
She brushed his hand away, needed to think, “He knew…and still played dumb…knew it was
you in fact, but called you to my face, ‘some random guy.” She thought about that for a while
He didn’t want me to know it was you… Why?” she wondered aloud, and got up from the couch
to pace around.
Damien knew she’d been with another, had seen her having s*x with Garrett Owens, but he
was still just going to blip over it, and never say anything at all about it… He didn’t want her to
know it was Garrett Owens. That was the only conclusion she could come to.
“Harm?”
She held up a hand to him “I’m thinking.” She murmured, and she was really thinking now, she
and he hadn’t had s*x in over a week. He’d spent that week at his apartment and she at hers.
He’d stated he wouldn’t be able to not touch her. He was thinking about if she got pregnant,
she realised.
He’d been the one to tell her they should abstain from s*x while she was on antibiotics, even
though her doctor didn’t think it was necessary. He didn’t want to risk a baby outside of
marriage. Knew his parents wouldn’t either, so he had told her until they were finished, they’d
simply abstain.
Though it was curious how she’d gotten pregnant, she was still on the pill even now, or had
been until this morning, she supposed. She wondered now if he’d stayed away from her all this
time, to make sure if there was a baby, he’d know whose it was?
So calling Garrett some random guy, instead of using his name, meant she wouldn’t know
whose baby it was either. So she wouldn’t come here to Garrett himself, for clarification, and
have her leave him and turn to Garrett. Was he trying to hurt her and Garrett at the same time?
Because of what he’d seen that night.
It was completely possible, now that she knew what kind of people they were, “He called you some random guy, to my face. If you’d not sent me that footage, I’d have thought the baby was
his, and you’d never know about it. I think he’d likely have used it as an excuse to rid himself of
me, knew it wasn’t his, and could have his parents accept Chloe that way. I wouldn’t know the baby was yours because I have no memory of us together, so I wouldn’t be able to come to you and tell you.” she sighed, he really was a mean son of a b***h.
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He was happy cheating away on her with Chloe, but couldn’t deal with her being with another
at the same time, a full double standard.
“Mm, I guess I can see that, he did prowl outside my VIP room, until I came out to deal with him. I’m pretty certain he was there to take you home with him that night. I wasn’t letting that
happen.”
Harmony sighed as she looked at Garrett, and he stood up and walked over to her. “We,
Damien and I, got into it that night.”
“He was there? The…whole time.” Harmony frowned.
“Yes,” Garrett nodded and tilted her face up to look at him “You’re so tiny.” He chuckled, and
she supposed to him, she was, “I think my sweet Harmony, he was never going to tell you. Was going to plead ignorance to what he knew and saw, to keep you by his side.”
“How could he…” she didn’t understand.
“How about I just show you what happened?”
“I…I…I don’t know.”
She watched him lean down, and he pressed his lips to her ear. “It’s nothing to be
embarrassed about. We had sex.” He chuckled softly “It’s a good happy memory for me.” he
turned her face to look at him and his dark blue eyes were right there, a mere inch away, and
her heart fluttered at his closeness, at the way he was looking right into hers.
Then his mouth touched hers softly in a gentle kiss, “I enjoyed that night very much.” He
murmured.
“The night?” she questioned.
“Mm, it wasn’t a five–minute thing,” he smiled right at her “I’m not that kind of man.”
She felt herself get pulled right into him, and his mouth claimed hers for a deep kiss, her eyes widened and then fell closed as she felt his hand slide up into her hair. Kissed him back, as something inside of her felt warm as he touched her, and his kiss was soft and sensual, and a part of her wanted it; to be kissed by someone, to feel wanted.
