“Is this going to be a habit, Gina?” “Is what going to be a habit? My being up early enough to see you off to work?” I raised an eyebrow. “I wouldn’t count on it, baby. I don’t do mornings.” He leaned across the bar, wrapping his hand around my neck, and pulled me into him. “Oh, I know you don’t. You’re a little night owl. Do you know how exhausted I am?” “Perhaps you should reconsider changing your schedule. A ten a.m. start may be more fitting for your current lifestyle.” “The lifestyle in which I take you to our bed every night and fuck you until you see black?” A spark of red-hot lust shot through my pussy, dissipating into a heavy ache at his words. “Or we could go with the one in which I flip you onto your back and fuck you until you see black—like I did last night.” A growl rumbled deep in George’s throat. “Are you trying to send
“I’m still amazed you’re up.”“Shut up.” I stepped to the side and let him in. “Coffee?”“Tea, thanks. You can keep your bloody coffee.” He hanged his jacket on the hooks in the hall and followed me into the kitchen, looking around. “I see you’ve added some femininity to this place.”“Believe me, it was by force,” I replied dryly and handed him his tea. “Here.”“Thanks. Did you tell him yet?”I shook my head and led him into the front room. I sunk onto the sofa and tucked my legs beneath me. “What am I supposed to say? ‘Oh, hey, baby, I forgot to tell you that your conniving, gold-digging bitch-whore of an ex-wife dropped by my place three weeks ago and threatened me unless I pay her two and a half million’?”“It pretty much
“That’s far too much information.” Ivan snorted, shutting the laptop down. “It’ll take a few days to edit these, but when they’re done, I’ll email you them so you can pick the ones you want for your portfolio. Then I’ll put it together and email it out. A different name, right?”I nodded. “I don’t want anyone at the company recognizing my name. I’ve never met any of the agents, so there’s no chance they’ll recognize me. Is that crazy?”Ivan shook his head. “Nope. Perfectly sane. Until you have to explain you’re not Mariana Espinoza Gonzalez.”“Yeah, I’ll pass on that one. I’ll think the name up myself, thank you very much.” I grinned and grabbed the ringing phone. “Hello?”“Miss Gina? There’s a letter downst
The door closed again, and I sunk to the floor. I let the pressure run free, and a sob escaped my lips.Yet again, there was a part of me inside that was broken. But this time, I had only myself to blame.******* ******The mattress dipped next to me, and I curled myself tighter into a ball. My hands fist the sheets covering me, and I screwed my eyes shut. Uncertainty was all I felt, when all I wanted to feel was—His arms wrapping around me, pulling me into his hard body.George buried his face in my neck as he held me close to him. His chest rose and fell, and I could feel the pounding of his heart against my back. He slipped his knee between my legs and kissed my shoulder.“What are you doing?” I whispered, my words thick with unshed tears.“I’m holding you, baby. What else do you think I&rsquo
“Coffee,” is all he said.“Is that a demand?”“I require coffee every single morning.”I finished with the foundation and grabbed his arm, moving his shirt so it exposed the watch on his wrist. I tapped the face lightly. “Seven thirty. There’s still four and a half hours of the morning left. Your requirement can wait a little longer.”He stood behind me as I finished applying my makeup. He grabbed my brush and ran it through my hair, and I met his eyes in the mirror.“How do you do it?”“How do I do what?” he responded.“Make it seem so normal. There’s this huge cloud hanging over us ready to piss all over us and you’re just…normal.”He smiled. “Haven’t you learned anything? Great love makes the bad stuff disappear, if only for a sec
“If you hear the name Christy Lopez, you’re on the right track.”Rachel scribbled that on her paper and stood, nodding. “All right. I’m on it. I’ll let you know as soon as I find anything out.”“Thank you. Oh, and, Rachel?”She paused by the open door and glanced over her shoulder.“If you get me this information, your next pay will have a considerable bonus in it.”Her lips twisted to one side. “I’m not doing it for money, Mr. Stone. I’m doing it because we’ve all noticed how happy you are now. And, if you’ll excuse my language, Ester is a raging bitch.”She closed the door behind her, and I laughed. “I like her. She gets it.”“Ester has worked for me for four years, and Ester spent the majority of that time trying to con
“Oh, believe me, baby. I have no work on my mind. Only play.” He covered my mouth in a kiss so forceful I pushed my hips up. Shit. His tongue slid along the seam of my mouth, flicking between my lips and begging for entry. I allowed him, opening for him, letting my tongue sweep against his. He squeezed my waist and lowered his body on top of mine, hard and defined and so fucking perfect. I slid my hands beneath his jacket and tugged his shirt free of his trousers. The skin on his back was hot beneath my fingers as they crept under the hem of his shirt, and he groaned quietly when I wrapped my legs around his back. The way my body arched into his, the tensing of my muscles that held him to me, the deep sweep of my tongue across his—they all said how much I needed him. They told both of us how much my body needed his, how much it craved the swee
“Like what, exactly?”He wiped some tissue along me, tenderly wiping me clean, and passed me my panties. “Sorry. I don’t have clean ones,” he murmured. “And things I don’t want to discuss while you’re lying on my desk after I fucked you.”I sat up, courtesy of his arms around my back and lifting me, and brushed my thumb along his jaw. “Let’s deal with it, baby. Together. As one.”“We will be, but I’m still not discussing it while you’re on my desk.”“Oh, for fuck’s sake.” I stood, stepping to the side of him. “There. I’m not on your desk anymore.”George looked at my hand. “And you’re also not wearing any underwear.”I tugged my dress down my thighs and stuffed my wet panties into the pocket of his pants. “And I