Total pages in book: 64
Estimated words: 59913 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 300(@200wpm)___ 240(@250wpm)___ 200(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 59913 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 300(@200wpm)___ 240(@250wpm)___ 200(@300wpm)
I pushed open the door without knocking and came up short. She was sitting in one of the two seats behind his desk, her back arched as she worked the kinks out. Lucky for her he was nowhere to be seen.
I watched her as she reached her arms above her head and stretched before twisting her neck from side to side.
“Where’s my brother?” She almost fell out of her chair at my approach.
“He’s not here.” She started gathering up the blueprints they’d been looking over and I walked around the desk to stand next to her.
“Let me see, are those the new ones?” I heard her indrawn breath as I reached over her for the papers in her hand. My dick started to rise and it was all I could do not to snatch her up from the chair and kiss her.
“Stay where you are.” She was getting ready to bolt from the chair to escape me but I had no intentions on letting her get away from me that easy.
I looked over the blueprints, genuinely pleased with her efforts. It was good that my woman was good at her craft and not just a pretty face and hot body.
It’s true that some get through in life with just those things, but I was pleased that she had more substance than any of the women of my prior acquaintance. To be fair, it wasn’t their fault that I liked the social heiress type. Or used to I should say.
“This is very good. I’m glad I let you talk me into it.” Her look of surprised confusion was just what I was hoping for. And when I smiled her mouth fell open in shock.
“You must’ve worked really hard on this, thank you. I don’t have to tell you the importance of this project going off without a hitch.”
“Not many agreed with us hiring a relatively new untried architect, but I’m assured that you know what you’re doing. Thank you.”
“Um thank you?” That’s right little bird. I’ve ruffled your feathers enough, now it’s time to have you eating out of my hand.
I spent more time looking over the plans than was needed, but I used the time to inhale her hypnotic scent and watch her twitch at my nearness.
I smiled over her head as I watched the pulse race in her throat and her chest lift and fall with her uneven breaths.
I leaned down close to her ear as I pretended interest in a particular scale on the sheet. “Have you checked on the ground levels there already to be sure this would work?”
She swallowed hard before giving me an answer and when she did speak her voice was a croak before she cleared it.
“Yes, ahem…we checked all of that already and when we go there in a few weeks I expect to have a thorough inspection done.”
“Good, very good.” I let my lips brush against her ear and didn’t miss the way her breath stalled, or the way she shifted in her seat.
“I’ll leave you to it then, tell my brother I was here.” I walked away before my dick became any more obvious, or I did something I’d regret.
She wasn’t ready yet and I knew with a woman like her, one wrong move would spoil the whole thing.
I knew down to my bones that she’d love as fiercely as she now resented. That once I get her beneath me she’d be the perfect match for me.
I’d started thinking of her as a more long-term prospect these days and had accepted that I wanted her to be more than someone to warm my bed for a day or two.
There was something about her, starting from the day we met, that called to me. She had this air about her, like she needed me to take care of her, protect her.
It was so contrary to the tough exterior she wore that had fooled everyone. But I’d seen it and I mean to get to the bottom of it as soon as possible.
She didn’t know I watched her from beyond the door after I left. So I saw her flustered face and the way she fanned herself as if overheated.
“That damn man, why do I let him get to me? Don’t even think about it Giavanna he’s not for you.” I stumbled back away from the door speechless for the first time in my life.
I hadn’t expected that. I didn’t feel bad about spying on her either. At least I knew what she really felt. The little minx has been very good at hiding it. Let the hunt begin.
6
That whole week I made it a point to visit her in her office when I knew she was alone. The closer I got the more flustered she became until she was all but jumping out of her skin.