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“I’ll try to be accommodating.”
“Thank you.I also need the final guest list.Have the investigative reports come back yet?”
“The first one, yes.”
She frowned.“How many did you order?”
“Normally?Two.This time… a few more.”
She knew why.“Because of me.”
“I’m not taking risks with you, baby.”
“I can take care of myself, Zach.”
“Sure you can.But I prefer to lend an active hand.”
She wasn’t going to win.So she gave up.“You’ll let me have the list as soon as it’s ready?”
“If it’ll help you finish your work quicker and get back into my bed, yes, dammit.You’ll have it in the next couple of hours.”
Smiling, she leaned up to kiss the corner of his mouth.He turned and took over and didn’t stop until her lips burned with the power of his kiss.
He pressed the intercom and informed Philip of the change of plan, then instructed him to take the most traffic-heavy route.
Bethany rolled her eyes.“Is that your idea of being accommodating?”
He shrugged unapologetically.“The best route takes thirty-five minutes.This way gives us a full hour before we get to your place.Not nearly enough, but it’ll have to do.”He released his seatbelt, pulled her into his lap and started lowering her thin straps.
Then he proceeded to work an all-night-long’s worth of sex into a single hour.
* * *
The moment she closed her apartment door, Bethany wondered whether she’d made the right choice.
She missed Zach like crazy, and it’d only been ten minutes.Her phone buzzing with Sheena requesting an asap Skype call check-in propelled her out of her sorry state and into a semblance of work mode.
Ten minutes after she fired up her laptop, her phone buzzed with a FaceTime request from Zach.Biting her lip, she decided to ignore it.She was hopelessly addicted to the man.She knew it.But she needed a tiny bit of independence from him, or she would become hopelessly lost in him.Turning her phone to silent, she worked steadily for the next hour and a half.
By the time she logged on with Sheena, she had enough to report on to not feel total shame that she’d spent half the day fucking Zach Savage instead of working.
“Where are we on the guest shortlist?”Sheena asked after perusing the report Bethany had emailed her.
“Z… Mr.Savage is sending it shortly.”
Sheena nodded.“Excellent.I see he’s chosen Rome, Kenya and/or Thailand.You’re using our people to arrange entertainment on the ground?”
“Yes.But I’m also sourcing a few contingent ones, in case we need a backup plan.”
“Good thinking.Let me have the guest list as soon as you receive it.”
Vaguely wondering why Sheena had requested a Skype call if this was all she wanted to talk about, Bethany nodded and prepared to sign off.
Her phone vibrated again, and another tingle fluttered through her.Zach had been calling almost incessantly in the last half hour.Irritation rose to mingle with the tingling.Despite missing him like crazy, she would need to have a serious conversation with him about holding up his end of a bargain to give her a little space.
“…so nothing can go wrong—am I boring you, Bethany?”Sheena interrupted sharply.
Bethany refocused and noticed Sheena’s flushed face for the first time.She also toyed with the stem of a half-glass of red wine, which she picked up and swigged from as she waited for Bethany to answer her.