CHAPTER 27

Weston

After I wakened, I used to be conscious of two issues. My arm had gone numb, and Cade was wrapped round me like a rattling lemur on the mattress. I shifted us, cautious to not jostle him an excessive amount of and wake him.

His lips parted simply sufficient that I may hear tiny smooth snores, his darkish eyelashes standing out towards his sunlit pores and skin. The sunshine of morning bathed him like an angel, and I couldn’t assist however suppose that’s precisely what he seemed like in my arms.

I steadied my breath as I ran my fingers by his smooth hair, my coronary heart lifting as he sleepily moaned out a sound of contentment from my contact.

I need to preserve you and this second eternally.

Nevertheless, that was the second my ache within the ass mother and father determined to name me. Or extra precisely, my ache within the ass father.

The annoying name broke the spell of perfection, and Cade shifted in my arms as I regrettably pulled away.

“Sure, father?” I mentioned in all probability a lot harsher than I’d meant to, however I used to be nonetheless a bit drained, and so far as I used to be involved it was nonetheless too early to take care of Rhodes Household Drama.

I had simply woken up, for fuck’s sake.

Just like the businessman he was, he didn’t even handle our tense dialogue ultimately evening’s barely eaten dinner. As a substitute, he simply steamrolled proper over it, launching into his severe dad tone.

“I’m holding a gathering as we speak on the fifth flooring, convention room A. Your presence is obligatory.” His tone conveyed all enterprise, commanding and with little room for refusal.

Part of me instinctively wished to refuse on precept, as a result of there was nothing I hated greater than being pressured into something.

Particularly by my father.

Fencing classes, boarding faculty, a job I didn’t suppose I used to be certified for.

However I additionally knew that my father not often spoke to me like this.

I may depend on my hand the variety of instances he’d sounded so severe, his tone making his order appear completely crucial.

Which made me sit up straighter, my muscular tissues tightened. All the things about his phrases brought about panic to type within the pit of my abdomen.

This could’t be good.

Cade groggily mumbled one thing beside me, nevertheless it was white noise as I attempted to deal with discovering my very own voice.

“I perceive,” I mentioned, my very own voice not betraying how actually frightened I used to be.

If my presence was obligatory, I knew this was in all probability it. The day I’d been dreading since that summer season earlier than I’d graduated.

“Be there at ten o’clock. Don’t be late,” he mentioned curtly, earlier than hanging up on me, leaving me to stew in my panic alone.

The sound of a bathroom flushing within the background pulled me from my waking nightmare, reminding me I wasn’t alone. I turned to see Cade strolling by the doorway, stopping as our eyes met.

I famous the time on the nightstand clock learn eight thirty. I had precisely an hour and a half till the rattling world got here crashing down.

My solely thought was I needed I may have spent it with Cade. Curled up below the covers, kissing him till he begged me to cease. Ordering room service and simply laying in mattress watching horrible resort films.

However life simply wasn’t fucking honest, typically.

“Who was that?” Cade requested as I climbed up and doing, pulling off my shirt. I folded it neatly and set it on the left facet of my suitcase, doing the identical with my slacks till I used to be right down to my briefs. I may really feel Cade’s eyes on me, the warmth of his gaze. I reached for a pair of fresh slacks and a lilac silk shirt.

“My father. Sadly, I’ve an early assembly as we speak,” I mentioned with out inflection.

“Oh, okay,” Cade mentioned softly, his voice stuffed with unstated phrases.

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