Page 98 of The Devil In Denim
“Ollie called me a couple of hours ago,” Hana said. “Is it true?”
“About Sutter? Yes.”
“Holy shit,” Hana said. “You’re thinking about it, right? You have to be thinking about it.”
“Yes,” Maggie said again.
“Holy shit,” Hana repeated. “Damn him.”
“Are you mad?”
“I don’t want you to do it,” Hana said. “But I can understand why you’d think about it.”
“Why don’t you want me to do it?”
“I like it here.”
“That’s not a reason.”
“No? Okay. I don’t like Sutter. I’ve been putting feelers out, digging around. Shelly has too. He seems like a bit of a douche.”
“Doesn’t mean that he won’t get the job done. There are some pretty good businessmen out there who are douchey.”
“Sure. But that doesn’t mean you want to work for one, right?”
“I don’t know.”
Hana sighed. “I know I can’t convince you but think hard, right. He seems like the sort of guy who’ll do what suits him best. If he has to choose between a rock and hard place, he’ll be the one who finds the soft place to fall while everyone else gets crushed.”
“And you think Winters isn’t?”
“You know him better than me,” Hana said. “You’ve spent more time with the three of them than anyone else so far. You tell me.”
Maggie pulled a face at the phone. “Winters is perfectly capable of being ruthless when he wants to. He’s all about business. And what he says goes.”
“Well, he is the boss. And being all about business seems pretty good to me when you’re trying to save a dying franchise. What else do you know about him?”
He’s freakishly good at kissing. Nope. Not going to say that. “He doesn’t think I’m ready to be CEO. Sutter does.”
“Hmm,” Hana said. “Okay. But Alex still wants you to work for the Saints. He’s not cutting you out completely. Anything can happen in the future. I thought you were okay with that?”
“He’s—”
“He’s what?” Hana paused, her slightly blurry face frowning. “Oh crap. You slept with him.”
“What? No.” The denial came to her lips automatically. But she was pretty sure her face was more frozen panic than calm “nothing to see here.”
“Maggie Louella Jameson, I can tell when you’re lying. Holy crap, you slept with Winters.”
Maggie let her head fall back against the sofa. “I’m an idiot.”
“He’s hot. You’re human.” Hana sounded amused.
Maggie raised her head so she could see the screen. “No. I’m an idiot. There’s a reason you shouldn’t sleep with your boss, and this is it. It makes things too complicated. For me at least. It doesn’t seem to bother him that much.”
“What does that mean?”
“He got really mad when I told him about Sutter. Told me I had to make a choice. Plus he said he’d hold me to my contract.”
