Page 138 of Taming the CEO

I frowned. "What am I not suspecting?"

He looked over his shoulder and groaned. "All right. I'll talk to you later, busybody." He hung up the phone.

"What am I not suspecting?" I pressed, moving closer to him.

"You don't know if I was talking about you."

"That's true, but I suspect you were."

Maddox kissed my temple. "You don't have to know everything, love."

I shimmied a bit, wrapping my arms around his torso. I loved when he called me that. I looked up at him, kissing his chin, then down the column of his neck. When I reached his Adam's apple, he groaned.

"Cami... I know what you're doing."

I gasped. "How come?"

"Really, babe? You're obvious. And it's a low blow, I must say."

"Hey, there’s no rule saying I can't seduce my boyfriend to get what I want."

He laughed. "No. But we should make a rule regarding timing." He grabbed my hand. "Come on, let's go for a walk. We don't want to halt construction for too long. Besides, you have to be at the store later on."

"That's true," I said as we got in the car.

I didn't exactly understand his comment about halting the construction, but whatever. I was going to take a walk in the park. I hadn't counted on that happening for another few months, and I wasn't going to look a gift horse in the mouth.

I kept my nose pressed to the window as Maddox drove, smiling when we reached the gate. The main building was still there. They hadn't taken it down yet. I practically jumped out of the car when he stopped.

"Easy," Maddox said as he got out of the car too. "Look where you're going. They've been paving but didn't finish it all yet."

"If you want, you can totally give me your arm," I said, wiggling my eyebrows. "You know, just to help me keep my balance."

He came up next to me. "I was going to do exactly that anyway."

He offered me an arm. Crap, this isn't exactly helping my plan. I wanted to fondle him as we walked.

I awkwardly tried to do that with my other hand, and he cocked his head at me as we started along the snaking path.

"Cami, I know what your goal is, and you're going about it the wrong way."

Yeah, I was still on my mission to seduce him, but he was right, and I knew when to admit defeat.

But then I forgot all about my plan as we walked on the trail. They'd put cobblestones on part of it, but most was covered with what were clearly temporary wooden slabs. Once we reached the place where the first zip line used to be, I let out a huge sigh. They'd disassembled all of the stations. That was one of the first things they'd done.

"I can't believe it. It looks like it was never here in the first place."

Maddox stood behind me, putting an arm around my waist and kissing the crook of my neck. "How do you feel about it?"

"A bit nostalgic."

He unzipped my coat and slipped his hand inside, then moved it in a circular motion over my belly. I shimmied against him, and he moved his fingers under my sweater, brushing my bare skin. I gasped as an unexpected wave of heat shot though me.

"Maddox!" I chastised.

He put his lips to my ear and nibbled the outer shell.

"Is this payback for earlier?" I asked.

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