He had been torn between telling her the truth and seizing the opportunity to play along, smoothly extricating himself from the affair.
Leah looked at him, her eyes full of hurt. "Even if I hadn't gotten angry and broken up with you that day, you still would have gone home and asked me to fake a breakup, wouldn't you?"
Asher froze. That was exactly what he had been planning. He had taken Leah to the Keating Group, an act he knew Tiana Vaughn would surely report to Madeline Sterling.
He hadn't been able to resist bringing her along on the day of Nathan Grant's wedding. Honestly, after more than three years apart, he never wanted to let Leah go again.
But after Leah's confrontation with Tiana Vaughn that day, he'd had second thoughts. He felt he had been too impulsive and decided he should talk it over with Leah when they got home. His plan was for them to stage a breakup until he could find Madeline Sterling and resolve everything. Only then would they reconcile.
