Business Tycoon

"What?" Maria asked, surprised and shocked.

How did they all come up with this stupid conclusion, Maria thought?

"No comments," Elliot, Steve's PA, said, stepping in front of Steve and Maria just as a bodyguard stepped forward too.

"Back off," one of the bodyguards said to the reporter, and he shoved his way through to the cars.

In under a few minutes, they were at the Gem hotel. It was a relief to Laura when she realized there were no reporters waiting for them at the hotel.

"Is this where you stay?" Steve asked as they walked into the hotel lobby.

"No, I stay at the North Hotel," Laura replied, adding, "Sorry about the scene at the airport."

"Oh, don't worry about that; Maria and I got into a quarrel on a trip to Las Vegas last week, and the media is buzzing with rumors of us getting a divorce," Steve explained.

"Oh, really, I didn't know about that," Laura stated.

"You know reporters; they like to dig up things," Steve replied.

Audrey had gone ahead of them to get the keys to the r