her side to stare at him. She wasn’t looking quite as spiffy as she had when she first got here. Her makeup was starting to smear, and her eyes looked glassy. Her hair was turning into a tangled mess from her constantly fingering it.
“Sophia?”
“I’m only supposed to be with you so that when the doctor checks me before the wedding I’m still a virgin.”
Dominic’s eyebrows shot up. “Why would a doctor be checking to see if you were a virgin?” This conversation was getting weirder by the moment.
“So you’ll know that our child is yours. I can’t have a child that isn’t yours. You know that. I have to be a virgin until we get married. After the doctor sees me, of course.” Sophia giggled as she looked up at the ceiling again.
“Of course.” Dominic nodded. She actually thought he was going to marry her and have children with her? Was she out of her ever-loving mind?
“Sophia, I really want to know who told you all about me. Who gave you my address and phone number? Who told you where I am all the time? Please, I really want to know. It’s important to me.”
Sophia bit her lip as she turned her head to look at Dominic. “Really important?”
“Yes, Sophia. It is really important to me. In fact, I just don’t think I feel okay about anything unless I know. Can’t you tell me? We’re not supposed to have secrets between us, are we, Sophia?”
Sophia stared at Dominic for so long he wondered if she had gone into a coma. Finally she sniffled. “I’ll only tell you if you promise not to get mad at me.”
“I promise not to get mad at you, Sophia.”
“Karen told me. She’s my sister, you know.”
Karen? His assistant Karen?
“No, I didn’t know that, Sophia. Karen, my assistant, told you where I was? Where I lived? Gave you my address?” Dominic forced himself to smile.
Sophia nodded eagerly, seeing the smile on Dominic’s face. “Oh yes, Karen loves me and wants to make sure that I am taken care of. After she figured out that Keely was after you for your money, she called me. She told me how much you needed a wife, someone to take care of you. I know I’ll make you a good wife, Domi.”
Dominic gripped the edge of his chair as rage rolled through him like a tidal wave. “What else did Karen do, Sophia?”
Sophia shrugged. “Not much, really. I was actually surprised at how easy it all was. She just kept you and Keely from talking and seeing each other. You were right to get away from that man. He’s obsessed with you. He calls all the time. If he isn’t calling, he’s coming by your office. You might want to think about having some sort of stalker thing filed against him. He’s gay, you know?”
“Really? Keely is gay?” Color him surprised. “And how do you know this?”
“Karen told me. She said he was your roommate but you didn’t seem to understand that Keely was after you for your money. He’s trying to make you gay, too, just like him. But I’m here now and he’s gone, so you’re safe from him. I won’t let anything happen to you, Domi.”
“I don’t understand how you got him to leave, though.” Dominic just wished he could pick her brain and get the information out of it that he wanted and get rid of her. Instead he had to sit here and listen to Sophia go on and on.
“Oh, that part was easy. I told you that. Karen knew she needed to keep Keely away from you, so she wouldn’t put his calls through or take messages from him. You should have seen the messages he left like three weeks ago. He must have called a hundred times. She even stole your cell phone so that he couldn’t reach you that way. I have it, by the way, in case you want it back. Domi, would you get me a cell phone like yours? I like your cell phone.”
So that was where his cell phone had disappeared to. He had wondered what happened to it. He had assumed he left it somewhere. He never dreamed his assistant stole it. “Yes, it would be nice to get my cell phone back.”
He