Falling For My Playboy Boss
Chapter 56

Collins

POV

I hate I missed getting to see Cora, I wanted to tell mom and dad that we were seeing each other. But she left because Michael got there first, and she wasn't comfortable seeing him and his new little family. I could understand that. Michael was pretty upset when he found out that she had left, exiting outside the kitchen door in an effort to keep from causing him problems with Sadie. The guilt was all over his face, and we didn't know that Cora was going to be there in the first place. I was just going to meet up with her after her hair appointment tonight at her parents' house. When Ava said that Cora was there, I got really excited, until I couldn't replace her anywhere and we realized that she had left the house to keep the peace.

Since I got back, Maddie had been blowing my phone up. I had accidentally answered it the first time and she was just yelling about me and Cora in Paris. How did she even know that we were there? Then I remembered she follows the Paris magazines to see the latest fashion and gossip, so that is how she knew. She then started talking crazy about how we "were going to get back together, and how I was going to cut Cora lose right now or she would ruin me". I can't see how she was going to do that because I will not be giving up Cora for anything, especially not for Maddie's nasty a*s.

Dinner was nice and we were all enjoying seeing how happy mom and dad were with their grandchild. I get a text and open it, and immediately close it. I excuse myself from the table and go to the restroom. What I see then makes me want to throw up. Maddie set up her camera and recorded us having s*x after that first fashion show when she asked Mateo if he was out of his mind for not hiring her and instead hired my sister and Emily in her place. I groan as I remember being so physically excited about seeing Shea for the first time back in May that I had slept with Maddie. That was the last time that Maddie and I had s*x together. My mom was right, Maddie was horrible, and I should have cut her loose, and left her alone. I should have told her all bets were off on me helping her get a modeling job because we were no longer together. Maddie is going to cost me Cora because there is no way that she won't release this video if I don't bow to her demands. I feel like I am going to be sick. I can almost see Cora's betrayed face, and this is going to be much worse than when Michael hurt her because he never slept with her and then ghosted her. I then see a total of 7 pictures come through, me in her shower: naked, front, and back shots, and her in my shirt barely covering her small breasts, and a tiny thong, with me in the background in two of the pictures. She took one by herself looking out over her view of Manhattan, and then two more when I was leaning in the shower where it looked like we were together in the picture, but I had no idea that she had filmed me. If she releases this, we could lose half of our investors and I would have single-handedly destroyed the company. What am I going to do? The thought of breaking Cora's heart makes me physically ill. I have got to go talk to the guys, outside. I exit the bathroom and walk into the dining room, and ask them to come out to the garden with me for a little while.

I tell them what happened, and when, and then they watch the video, even though that was really tough, because I am completely disgusted by my actions with Maddie. I lean down and hold my knees because I think my dinner may be coming back. I caused it by my greedy, selfish actions. I never loved Maddie, and even up until Friday, I was still plotting on how to get Shae and keep Cora on the backburner until I was ready for her. Until we slept together. That changed me, and what I thought I wanted. I only want Cora now and I am going to lose her over my own stupid actions.

"Guys, I really need your help. I do not want to ruin the business that our grandfather started. That he, my father, and I all worked so hard on. I am with Cora now. I love her, and we are together. Like together, together guys. This is going to kill her as well as ruin the family business. I don't know what to do. Maddie found out that Cora and I are together, and she told me that unless I get back with her, she is going to release the video and the pictures, and you can clearly tell that it is me. You see me more than her even, and I am sure that was her intent. She was jealous of me looking at that model Shea at the show, and then the incident with Cora after the first show. She is really jealous of Cora for some reason. I don't know how to fix this at all. I need Cora in my life. I love her. But Maddie is taking her away from me. I don't even know where to begin, but I need help.

"This is bad, Collin, this is very bad, but there is hope. You just aren't going to like what we have to do to deal with it. It may be several months before we can get it straight, and you don't have several months. You are going to have to cut Cora loose, in the meantime, until we can get this handled. I have a friend in the FBI, and he can help us get this started quickly. This is a new kind of blackmail called Sextortion, and it happens enough to be able to warrant its own name. I think she sent you all that she had. I think that this is probably all of her blackmail items, and I can hit her with an injunction with the courts to keep her from publishing the pictures. We can prove that she sent them to you and keep texting her so we can get her to admit what she wants, in written form, in exchange for her not releasing the pictures and the feds can help us with the other part, as I am sure she wants something specific from you Collin." Nicolas said to me.

"I agree with Nicolas. There has been a big surge in this type of crime, but unfortunately for you, Cora is going to end up hurt again while we get this sorted out. I also think we need to tell dad, and then no one else in the family needs to know. We will need real reactions coming from Ava and Mom for this to work out and Maddie thinks that you are complying with her demands. We need Maddie to think that this is all working out to what she wants and to that end, she wants to get that pain from Cora, over losing you. If we tell her, or give her a heads up on it, it could slip out during an argument, and we can't afford it. I want Maddie to go to jail for what she is doing to you and Cora. Cora was hurt badly enough by me. I just really don't want her to have to be hurt any more than she has to be this time around, but she will be. She had feelings for you before, and she stamped them down because of how you treated her. That is how we ended up dating. I was going to leave her alone, but she decided that she had been hurt enough by you and that you had a thing for that model Shae, so she decided to give me a chance", Michael said to us, and I winced thinking about how this was going to play out on Monday. "This is going to be the hardest thing that I have ever had to do, guys. I don't know if I can do it, seeing Cora's face. I don't think I will be able to do it", I told them.

"Let's go in and talk to your dad, he needs to be told, and we need to get a plan down too for us to put into action," Dalton tells us, and we all come back inside. Ava is sitting there smiling at me like she knows something exciting, but then her smile fades as we walk up to dad and tell him we need to talk in the office. We told the ladies to go ahead with dessert and we would be back shortly. Dad, as anticipated, is furious with me.

"Didn't your mother and I tell you to cut this horrible girl loose, son? This stupid girl is willing to destroy our whole company and for what? To sleep with you. To date you. To marry you. What is her end goal? And you finally get some sense and decide to date Cora, who is wonderful, and now you are going to have to break her heart, again. For us to be able to try, to TRY, to get Maddie arrested for blackmail. Am I up to speed now? Good Lord, I just can't. I lost a grandchild for almost 4 years because of a miscommunication. My other son is out there dating a bunch of loose women and one of them manages to trap you in her web. This, this, Collin, is the reason that your mother and I wanted you to settle down with a good woman, not be a manwhore, and just do whatever you wanted. This is going to break your mother's heart too, because I know she had her heart set on Cora being her daughter-in-law, and now, for the next couple of months, all of our lives are going to be affected, and not in a good way. I know you know how much grief your mother will be giving you, Collin, she is going to be so disappointed in you. Now I have to take the heat too because I can't let her know what is going on. I agree that we need to keep the number of people who know low, so from now on just the police, the FBI, and I think you should call in Thomas Grady as well, Collin. He helped with replaceing Michael's woman. You could have him spy on Maddie, or at least Cora to keep tabs on her. Because I will tell you right now, I know her. I heard what she said at my own dining table a month ago, and she WILL be done with you the second she hears this. She won't be your PA anymore. You have lost her in more ways than one. Collin, I love you, your mother, and I both do, but your selfish actions have caused severe problems for this family and for Cora. I am disappointed that you let your smaller head lead you around by the nose, and didn't use the smart one on your shoulders, like you should have.