“Hello, I hoped we’d be capable of speak both right here or in my workplace while you get an opportunity,” she mentioned.

Cole averted his eyes from the pages he’d been flicking, and when his gaze landed on hers, a tremor labored its approach down her backbone, awakening all her feminine elements. Rattling. She hadn’t observed the rings of hazel outlining his vivid inexperienced irises. She swallowed, wishing to eliminate the lumps of lust forming in all her pulsing factors. “After all.” He glanced down at his costly watch then scratched his chin. “I’m in conferences all day. Dinner?”

Her coronary heart skipped a beat. Dinner implied going house to alter, nighttime shenanigans and the mistakable date-type environment. Dinner was harmful. “How about lunch?”

“I’m already assembly a few different managers to go over some operational issues at lunch.”

Rattling. He left her no choices. “All proper. Certain. Dinner sounds good.”

“My assistant will ahead you the main points. See you then.”

* * *

“The sommelier will likely be proper with you,” the waitress mentioned, after pouring the bottle of Evian into his glass.

“Not wanted. It is a work assembly,” Cole mentioned out loud, as a result of the 5 instances he had internally chastised himself with these phrases hadn’t been sufficient. Quickly, Nikki would arrive they usually’d solely focus on enterprise. A lump of frustration expanded in his chest, and he tapped the linen tablecloth. Work assembly, man.

These two phrases put him proper the place he ought to be—skilled, indifferent. Honestly, he may have scheduled the assembly with Nikki at a special date, however the concept of not seeing her simply due to his packed scheduled had deflated a balloon inside him he shouldn’t even be filling.

After he had been concerned in a scandal together with his father’s former assistant, his father had as soon as once more been disenchanted, and worst of all, adamant about his son’s elimination from the household enterprise. He’d provided to purchase his share of shares, however Cole had refused. He’d labored laborious his entire life and was too good at it to stroll away due to a foul resolution, a foul name to sleep with a girl who blackmailed him with a sexual harassment lawsuit if he didn’t deposit sum of money in her checking account.

When he hadn’t acted quick sufficient, she had contacted his father and blackmailed him.

Yet another failure in his father’s eyes.

Cole took a gulp of water, pretending it was laborious liquor. That is completely different. Nikki didn’t work for him when he’d kissed her. She had been a random girl who had modified his night and gave him a perpetual hard-on throughout the weekend. What would it not have been like in the event that they’d had intercourse?

The principle vein in his neck pulsed. Passionate.

His cock hardened, each a part of him so attuned to the forbidden thought unraveling in his thoughts. When he’d slid his arms down her decrease again, her lush ass had crammed his palms. What wouldn’t he give to really feel her bare in opposition to him and contact, kiss and nibble her peach-smooth behind? She’d moan, urgency dripping in her voice. And he would—

“Cole?” the girl who had assailed his peace of thoughts mentioned, pulling a chair in entrance of his. “Sorry I’m late.”

He coughed, realizing he couldn’t stand as much as shake her hand as a result of his erection was much more cussed than his thoughts. “No downside. I didn’t see you coming.” In any other case, he would have pulled her a chair. No. Not at a piece assembly, he advised himself, keen away the thrumming in his coronary heart.

Sporting a beige turtleneck and the identical colour skirt, she regarded even higher than he remembered. She had pulled her hair up in some form of a glorified bun, however a couple of strands managed to stray and body her face. Gorgeous.

“Thanks for seeing me,” she mentioned in a impartial tone. She pulled a folder from her bag and positioned it on the desk. She opened the folder, stared at its contents, then sighed. With a flicker of vulnerability in her eyes, she closed it and drummed her fingers on the quilt. “First, I wished to inform you I didn’t know who you have been once I approached you on the bar.”

He straightened his shoulders. A zing of consciousness traveled from his scalp to his core. Why would he assume she had a hidden agenda to go speak to him at Splurge? “No worries. I’m glad you introduced this up. Appears we’ll work collectively whereas we transition the communities, and I don’t need to make you uncomfortable.”

“It’s okay. I’m not uncomfortable.”

Good, as a result of he was about to come back in his pants. “So, what do you need to discuss that couldn’t wait?”

She stared him sq. within the eye. “I don’t assume transferring among the residents to a different facility is a good suggestion.”

Specks of gold shone within the depths of her wealthy brown irises. It was like one thing had gone down his throat and sucked away all his moisture. Rapidly, he was thirsty, dry and uncooked.

He shook his head. Within the final yr when his father had known as him to assist, he’d dealt together with his share of cussed staff who despised change and, in lots of circumstances, progress. “However you haven’t even visited the brand new place. How are you going to be so positive?”

“As a result of I’ve been working at Nice Escape for 3 years. I do know the residents’ tales and what an endeavor it is going to be to a few of their households in the event that they switch.”

He had a drink of water. “They aren’t transferring to a distant city in India, they’ll be just a few hours away by automotive.”

She opened a folder and chosen some sheets of paper, sliding them to his facet. “Numerous analysis concluded these sufferers are higher off near relations.”

He stretched in his chair, determined to discover a snug place. Her phrases, her plea didn’t faze him, however her presence… her presence had a approach of spiking his pulse. Would he really feel the identical if they’d had intercourse after leaving the bar? Would she nonetheless have an effect on him as a lot? “The relations who really feel so strongly about it may possibly transfer.”

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