Total pages in book: 90
Estimated words: 91767 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 459(@200wpm)___ 367(@250wpm)___ 306(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 91767 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 459(@200wpm)___ 367(@250wpm)___ 306(@300wpm)
Once on our floor I stomp up the corridor and bust open the door.
Thomas is lying on the bed in navy silk boxer shorts…. “What a sight to behold.” I smile.
He puts his hands behind his head and shows off his biceps and abs. “Just waiting for my lady.” He winks, he holds his arms out for me and I drop beside him and hug him. “How did you go?” he asks.
“I think I got the account, she said she was going to email me the contracts.”
“I knew you’d get it.” He kisses my forehead.
“And the guy I told you about last night.”
“Mathew?” He frowns.
“He just asked me out.”
He chuckles and kisses my forehead. “Look at you go.” He hugs me tighter, “I can’t believe you’re breaking my heart like this, Beth,” he teases. “You wound me, woman, can you not at least act sad that you have to let me go?”
“You mean go to your next job that starts on Tuesday?”
He chuckles. “Yeah, that one.”
I kiss his bare chest and snuggle into him for a while. “What are you going to do?”
“Who, me?”
“Yeah.” I think for a moment. “What does Thomas Stone’s future look like, do you think you’ll ever settle down?”
“I’d like to think so.” He shrugs. “I may have written myself into a corner with this line of work though.” He twists his lips as he falls into deep thought.
“One day you’re going to fall madly in love.” I smile up at him.
“Hmm.” He curls his lip. “I don’t know, maybe I already have and I don’t even know it.”
“You’ll know it. When she comes you will move heaven and earth to keep her.”
He smiles and hugs me tighter.
“Where are you for Christmas?” I ask.
“Going to Hawaii with my family.” He kisses my forehead, “I’ll plan our wedding while I’m there.”
“Thanks,” I giggle and snuggle in closer.
This man.
“Did you tell Mathew that you’re mine this weekend and that he needs to fuck right off?”
“Yes.” I kiss his chest again. “And I told him that you have the most beautiful dick in the world.”
He flips me over onto my back and holds my hands over my hand as he smiles down at me. “In the world?” He smirks.
“Universe.” I widen my eyes.
“That’s a big call….” He kisses me, his tongue swiping through my open lips, he nudges my thighs apart with his knee and comes to rest between my legs.
We stare at each other as our most intimate parts touch. His hardness to my softness, the perfect yin to yang.
“You know I’ve been a very bad girl today, Sir Thomas,” I whisper.
“Have you?” He flips me again and suddenly I’m kneeling at the edge of the bed, then standing behind me he pulls my dress up and palms my behind through my panties. He grabs a handful of my hair and drags my head back and kisses me backward.
“How much you paying for this one?” I tease.
“Four thousand.”
“I’m worth ten.”
He kisses me aggressively, “Baby, I’d pay anything.”
He can flirt, he can joke, he can fuck, and boy…can he dance.
I laugh out loud as Thomas spins me around the dance floor. I’m having the time of my life.
Laughing and loving my way through what was supposed to be a hellish experience.
“Do you know how beautiful you are when you laugh?” Thomas smiles down at me.
“How have you single-handedly made this weekend so wonderful?” We sway to the music.
“I hate that you’ve been sad for so long,” he says softly.
“Me too.”
“Sometimes the darkest skies bring out the brightest stars.” He kisses me tenderly.
“And what a beautiful star you are, Thomas Stone.” I smile up at him. “You never know, one day you might get a whole book written about you.”
He laughs out loud and spins me around. “No dodgy author is going to massacre my life with a third act breakup.”
I laugh out loud and then we fall serious again. “I don’t think it’s going to be a massacre at all.”
He kisses me softly and then looks over my shoulder. “For the record, if Mathew keeps looking at you, I’m knocking him out.”
I giggle as he spins me. “I dare you to.”
We wheel our suitcases into the airport and our check-in desks are at different ends.
My eyes search his. “I guess this is goodbye.”
He takes me into his arms and hugs me tight.
“Thank you.” I hold him close. “Thank you for everything. You’ve changed my world in one weekend.”
He puts his head into the crook of my neck.
I feel like I can’t let him go. “Look after yourself…okay?” I hold him.
“You too.” We hug each other as if we will never see each other again because the reality is we probably won’t.
He’s changed my entire world in one weekend.
I get a lump in my throat and step back with tears in my eyes.