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Demands she’d granted like some helpless, sex-starved chick…
Oh, who was she kidding?She was helpless when it came to Zach.And his brand of sex always left her starving for more.
Mortification rocked through her at how fast she’d lost her panties along with her willpower.“God,” she groaned again.
A hard knock rattled the bathroom door.“Baby, are you okay?”
They were far enough away from the meeting room on the other side of the apartment for them not to be overheard, but her heart lurched at the husky endearment anyway.
Springing for the door, she opened it.“Can you not call me that with my bosses within earshot, please?”she whispered fiercely.
Zach ignored her, his eyes raking her face and body with that insane intensity she was beginning to think would never abate.“What’s wrong?”he demanded.
She closed her eyes and sucked in a will-sustaining breath.“Are you really this blind, or do you actually not care about anything except what you want?”
“We want the same thing so I fail to see where this conversation is going.”
Lazily, he slid a strand of silky hair through his fingers.She tried to bat his hand away.He caught her fingers in his and started to bring them to his mouth.
She snatched them away as mortification heated her face.“God, my lipstick is in my bag.My bag is in the conference room.They’ll take a look at me and know what I’ve… what we’ve been doing!”
Satisfaction oozed through the smile he sent down at her.“So?”
“The fact that you ask me that just makes me want to throttle you.”
“Peaches, it’s only a matter of time before the whole world knows I’m nuts about you.If I had my way, it would be sooner.Much sooner.”
Her mouth dropped open in shock, and a full body shudder raked her from head to toe before she could catch herself.
No matter how much she tried, she would never get used to the way Zach spun her senses with his words.
“What happened to protecting your privacy?”she blurted.
“My privacy is no fucking use to me without you in my life,” he replied through gritted teeth.
More words to render her speechless.
“But if this bothers you that much, I can find a way to excuse your absence.You can leave after your bosses are gone.I’m sure I can come up with a satisfactory excuse.”
“So now you care about my professional reputation?”
Grey eyes locked on hers.“I care about your happiness.”
“If you did, you wouldn’t have dragged me out of that meeting room in full sight of my bosses.And you sure as hell wouldn’t have manipulated me here in the first place.”
Again, that careless shrug.Only this time, she knew just how much she’d underestimated him.And how so not careless that shrug really was.“I had to get through to you once and for all.I want you.I’ll do anything to have you.”
He turned and started heading for the meeting room.With no choice but to follow or risk even more questions if he returned without her, she followed.“So what was Monday night all about?I thought we made progress.”She’d gone to bed believing they’d taken a small step forward; that they’d made progress during the ride home.Being proven wrong again made her wonder if she’d ever even come close to guessing how Zachary Savage ticked.
“This was added insurance I put in place before our conversation on Monday night.”
“Yeah, I kinda guessed that from earlier.But you still didn’t see the need to call it off?”she asked, unable to stop the tiny spurt of excitement from sprouting within her.
Zach paused with a hand on the meeting room door.“You mentioned Sheena gave you a hard time after you failed to come up with the goods last year.I looked into Neon and I liked what I saw.I’m killing several birds with one stone.”
She licked her lips.“So this is real?You want us to work on the IL project?”A tiny wave of excitement rushed through her, escalating before she could stem it.
“As long as your ideas pass muster, the deal is yours,” he murmured.“But don’t think that just because the boss has a soft spot for you that you’ll be given an easy ride.I intend to ride you very hard.And often.”He winked shamelessly and threw the door open.