Her eyes narrowed, and I recognized the stubborn glint in her beautiful brown eyes. “I’m feeling just fine. Like I was never sick. I told you, it was just traveling. We’re here now, and it won’t happen again.”
I eyed her skeptically, but when she was tenacious like this, I had to pick my battles. “All right. But, I’ll be watching you closely and if I see the slightest indication that you aren’t feeling well, I’m sending you back to the hotel.”
She bit her lip as she contemplated, distracting me with my desire to bite it for her. “Okay, I’ll accept your terms, Mr. Walker. But, you owe me.” She flipped around and sashayed over to the low table in front of a couch. My eyes were already glued to her perfect ass, but then she bent over to pick up her purse and I almost lost control.
I debated just how important my meetings were. With a sigh, I tried to think about anything other than fucking Sienna because if I missed my meetings, I’d be in breach of contract.
Closing the gap between us, I smacked her ass as she stood. “Trust me, baby. I’ll more than payup.”
* * *
“Jude,”I greeted the show’s producer as I shook his hand. I fought the temptation to squeeze it hard enough to break a few bones as he was staring at Sienna the whole time. Not sparing me a glance.
“And who is this exquisite creature?” he purred as he dropped my hand and grabbed hers, raising it up so he could kiss theback.
I snatched it away from him and put my arm around Sienna’s waist, hauling her into my side. “This is my assistant and fiancée, Sienna.” My voice held a clear warning, and he finally gave me his attention. He looked disappointed for a second, then smoothed over his expression. It wasn’t hard for him to do with all the Botox in hisface.
Sienna’s lips were pressed together, practically forming a straight line. I was afraid he’d upset her until she raised her eyes to mine and I saw the laughter dancing inthem.
I shook my head, her amusement soothing some of my fury at Jude. But, I kept her close as we followed him through the studio and glared at every set of eyes that lingered too long on my woman.
We entered a very large, state-of-the-art kitchen with multiple cooking stations and shelves upon shelves of pretty much any ingredient you could ever want. The whole set up was almost enough to give me a chef’s boner. A giggle from Sienna broke through my reverent adoration of the space. She was looking up at me, laughing.
“You should see your expression right now, Owen,” she chortled gleefully. “You look so blissed out; it’s almost like you’re about to have an orgasm.” She adopted an exaggerated, hurt bunny look and I chuckled. So fucking adorable. “I thought I was the only one who could put that expression on your face, but now I see I have competition”—she raised a single eyebrow—“from a kitchen.”
I grinned at her and leaned down so my lips were at her ear, my words for her only. “Baby, nothing gets me off like you do, but I won’t pretend that the idea of fucking you in this kitchen doesn’t have me hard as a fuckingrock.”
“Owen.” Fucking Jude interrupted our moment, and I glared at him. He stepped back at the sight of my fierce expression, but the moment lost some of its edge when Sienna snorted and patted myass.
“Um—I wanted to introduce you to the—um, the crew and other judges,” Jude stuttered. We met the director and staff before heading to another room, the one set up for judging. There, we met the rest of the panel and unsurprisingly, Sienna charmed every single person wemet.
Damn, I loved her. It hit me in that moment, that I’d never told her. I decided to do it when I officially proposed. I was confident she felt the same, and hopefully the romance of it all would make up for the hasty “engagement” before we left Atlanta.
After several hours of meet and greets, going over contracts and other paperwork, and tours; we were finally done for the night. Sienna looked dead on her feet, and I chastised myself for letting her come with me in the first place.
By the time we reached the hotel, she was out like a light. It was ten thirty east coast time, and I felt the strain of the long day, too. I carried her to the bedroom and undressed her before tucking her into bed. Then I stripped and climbed in, pulling her gently into my arms and wrapping myself aroundher.
I thought about her bout of sickness that morning and how tired she had been lately. The last week had been exhausting, but she’d seemed even more drained than I’d expected. I’d also noticed that she tasted different than she had the first few days after we first slept together. I hadn’t really thought much about it at the time, butnow…
Hugging her a little tighter, I placed my hand flat on her smooth belly and smirked. If I was right about the timing, I knocked my woman up the first time I fucked her. The image of Sienna, round with my baby and her naked body pressed to mine, put me in a painful state. But, I started running through recipes in my mind to calm my raging libido down and eventually, I succumbed to sleep.