Page 62 of High Rise Secrets

I stand, towering over her petite frame again. “You’re mine, Addison Snyder. No more running. We’re in this together, the good and bad. I promise to talk to you if I have any doubts in my mind.”

“Do you really want me to work here with you?”

“Addy, I don’t ever want you to leave my side again.” My eyes grow heated as I watch her closely. “If I had my way, I’d tie you to the bed and never let you leave.”

“Is that so, Mr. Freeman?” she asks, wrapping her arms around my neck, pulling my face closer to hers.

“Addy, the things I want to do to you would require it. You’d be trying to get away from the overload of pleasure.”

Her breathing hitches, and her cheeks flush, but those are the only indications she’s turned on. She’s always been good at hiding her arousal unless she wants me to know.

“What’s the offer? For the job. Give me your best pitch, and I might consider it.” She pushes me down into my seat and climbs into my lap, her skirt pulling tight over her hips. I lean forward, trying to press my lips to hers, and she holds me back with her finger over my mouth.

“Brat.” I bite her finger playfully. “Be my marketing manager. You have free rein to hire your own team.”

“Okay, and what about compensation and benefits? Benefits are a huge part of the job, you know.” She teases me by pressing her core against me and rubbing herself along my growing bulge.”

I groan and drop my head back on my chair. “I’ll give you orgasms every day, and we can even work on some more of those office fantasies you have yet to tell me about. I can’t wait to try them all out.”

“If I didn’t know better, Ethan, I’d say you do this with all the ladies.”

“Not a chance in hell, babe, only you. And I’m going to marry you one day to prove it. You’re it for me, Addy. I want you and only you. Take the job, move in with me, and make me the happiest man alive. Please, baby? I love you so much. I can’t picture my life without you in it.”

She takes a deep breath, and it looks like she’s going to cry again. It’s the first time I’ve been able to tell her in person how I truly feel about her. I love her. I want the whole damn world to know it, too. When I know she’s ready, I’m going to put a ring on her finger and give her the wedding of her dreams. Then, I want to have a million kids with her.

As if she can read my mind, she laughs. “I love you, too, Ethan. So damn much.”

I dig my fingers through her hair and pull her lips to mine for a bruising kiss.

Addison Snyder is finally mine.

Epilogue

Addison 3 months later

Us girls are all sitting at my new kitchen table as Ethan, Landry, and Luca lift heavy boxes and carry them into the house. Lia and Everleigh’s little girls are playing together in the living room. Watching these men work like this is turning me on, and you can bet when I get Ethan alone, he’s going to be one very happy man.

I can’t believe I’m finally moving in with him.Correction, he finally convinced me to move in with him.I may have been playing a bit of hardball, not wanting to leave my apartment and leave Eden in this building alone. She’s the last of us now to be here full-time, and it sucks. I want her to be happy. If she would just open her heart, I know she would find the right man.

Ethan comes back in and steals a kiss from me, and Landry smacks him upside the head.

“I want to get out of here atsomepoint today. Stop sucking face with her,” he chastises.

Ethan is now like one of the family, but it took a long time for him to smooth things over with the girls. Everleigh threatened to castrate him only about a hundred times before she would finally show him her softer side and welcome him into the group. I’m sure he had to make all sorts of promises, including chopping off his own dick if he ever messes up like that again.

Lia was much easier to win over as Landry had a hand in making her see reason. I’m sure that consisted of a million orgasms. Not that I blame her. Who wouldn’t want that kind of promise? He’s even managed to become close with Luca, and the three guys hang out pretty regularly, which makes it easy for us girls to still hang out all the time.

That leaves Eden. I look over at her, and she smiles at me, but I still see the tension there. She knows how I feel about Ethan, and she knows he’s not perfect. She’s willing to give him another chance because I’m giving him another chance. That’s all I could ask of her. Now, she just needs to let us play matchmaker and set her up. I wonder what Ethan’s friend Callan is up to? They seemed to have a good time at the charity ball...

The guys get the final boxes downstairs and come up to collect us. Landry scoops Aliana up in his arms and blows a raspberry on her belly. She squeals in delight and holds his cheeks between her little hands, and he smiles warmly at her and gives her a kiss on the nose.

Luca picks up Rory and pulls her against him. She drops her head on his shoulder and yawns, wrapping her arms around his neck. “Looks like someone needs a nap.”

“No,” she starts to whine and move in his grasp. He strokes the back of her head, and she settles down again, closing her eyes. She’s going to be asleep before he even reaches the elevator.

Ethan wraps his arm around my waist and pulls me to his side. “Thanks so much for all the help, guys. It would have taken us all day to load and unload the truck. There’s a game next weekend. How about we have a cookout here?”

The guys agree while we girls roll our eyes at the men. “Y’all better not forget about the women in your lives in favor of sports,” Everleigh says, placing her hands on her hips.