Total pages in book: 48
Estimated words: 45202 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 226(@200wpm)___ 181(@250wpm)___ 151(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 45202 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 226(@200wpm)___ 181(@250wpm)___ 151(@300wpm)
My phone rings, and I have to dig it out of my purse. As soon as I see Ray’s number, I decline the call. I refuse to talk to him, instead directing him to talk to my attorney.
“Hey, baby.”
As soon as I hear Dom’s voice, my nipples pucker. It’s become a little embarrassing how my body reacts to him. It’s like I can’t get enough. “Hey.”
He starts to come toward me, and I hold my hands up. “Stop right there, mister. You know the rules.”
He laughs. “I know, I know. If you’re going to work here, I need to let you work.”
I nod because that was one of the rules I made with him.
“I’m going to pick up lunch. What can I get you?”
I start to dig in my purse for some money, and Dom holds his hand up. “Don’t even think about it. I got you.”
I roll my eyes because Dom doesn’t let me pay for anything. “I’ll just take a salad from wherever you go.”
“Got it. Salad and a slice of Blaze Apple Cinnamon Cake.”
My eyes light up. “I don’t need the cake.”
He takes a step toward me. “Eat it for me.”
I spin my chair to look straight at him. “You want me to eat a piece of cake for you.”
He nods, taking another step toward me. “Yeah, I like the way you moan when you eat it.”
I point my finger at him. “Uh, uh… I see what you’re doing. Don’t come any closer.”
He takes a deep breath and puts his hands on his hips. “Are you getting work done?”
“Yes.”
“I love that you get to work from here.”
I look around his office. “You know this is only temporary.”
He drops his hands to his side and clenches them into fists. “Temporary?”
I shrug. “Yeah, I can’t take over your office forever.”
He lets out a breath, and this time he takes a step toward me and doesn’t stop until he’s standing right in front of me. He leans down, putting a hand on each side of my chair. “I thought you meant we were temporary. You’re stuck with me, Lucky. That’s not an option.” He leans down and kisses me and quickly pulls back. “As for the office, I’m thinking about renovating this office for the time being, but maybe for the future, we should turn the apartment upstairs into an office.”
“Your apartment!”
He nods. “Yeah. I’m thinking it’s time I bought a house.”
“A house!” I exclaim.
“Are you going to repeat everything I say?” He leans down and kisses me until my toes curl. “Yeah, honey, you need to wrap your mind around it. We’re going to go house shopping.”
“House shopping?” I say, completely overwhelmed. It seems like everything is happening so fast, but when I think about it, is it really? We’ve wasted so much time already, and I know I want to be with Dom.
He laughs, not even fazed by the way I keep shouting out words to him. “Okay, so I need to let you get back to work. I don’t want you telling me you can’t work here because I won’t let you get any work done. So you work. I’ll be back with some food.”
I watch him walk away and realize I never said anything about having an office upstairs or about getting a house together.
The afternoon flies by. I ended up eating alone because Dom got busy in the garage, but that’s okay because it gave me time to think about things. It’s almost closing time, and I pack up my bag. I walk out into the garage, and as soon as Dom sees me, he looks at my tote bag. “Where do you think you’re going?”
“I need to go to the house. I’m sure my mom is wondering where I’ve been.”
He walks toward me. “Stay.”
I bite my lip. I want to stay, but I haven’t told my mom about Dom, and I feel like I need to before she finds out about it from someone else.
“Dom, you have a visitor.”
Dom and I turn to Jake who’s standing next to Ashley Willow. Ashley has her eyes glued on Dom, and she walks toward him like she’s on a mission. “Hey, Dom, I made too much of my famous chicken enchiladas and I remembered how much you loved them, so I thought I’d bring you some. We could eat upstairs.”
I cross my arms over my chest and glare at the woman who hasn’t even looked my way. Is she kidding me right now? She has to see me standing here. “Hi, Ashley. I haven’t seen you in a long time. How have you been?”
She’s not surprised I’m standing here, which means I’m right, she knew I was here, she just chose to ignore me.
“Hey, Luciana. Good to see you.”
I lean into Dom’s arm, and instantly he pulls me into his side, wrapping an arm around my shoulder. I force a smile at Ashley and try not to let my voice shrill with possessiveness. “That is so sweet of you to bring food over for Dom, but unfortunately we already have plans for dinner tonight.”