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Ambra felt like pinching herself because sometimes it felt like she was dreaming; she was finally with the man she’d always been in love with, her best friend.

“Sit, supper is ready.” Michael said huskily before moving away from her to get her plates from her cupboard and set up the table while her eyes fixated on the peaks she was getting from when his apron parted from his flesh to expose his semi-hard cock that was waiting to pleasure her later.

“How was your day?” He sat down across from her after he passed her the plate of beef tagliata.

“It was okay; Ben and I did some work for Carter for the hotel here. Then we had a conference call with a new client discussing what we were going to do to set up his network for his business before I left to go and teach at one of the shelters that Diamond runs charities for.”

He nodded his head and smiled, a pleased look crossing his face, and she paused with eating a piece of the steak, wondering what that was about.

“And you, what did you do today?”

“I was at the hotel, having a staff meeting and going over our bookings for the next couple of months. We are booked solid, except for the rooms that are blocked off for the traveling hotel sites to use.”

They ran into companionable silence as they enjoyed the meal Michael prepared. Her mind going to the time they spent in Switzerland and the chef he’d hired to cook for them. She’d been surprised to learn that Michael could cook; he was able to prepare simple but delicious meals, and he would do that for himself when he was at home instead of going out to dinner or hiring a chef.

Her thoughts swung back to the chef at the resort and what had transpired with how Michael had found her. She’d heard from Coco again, and she reassured her everything was fine and not to worry. She still wasn’t pleased with Michael over giving Conor shares to Coco’s company, but Coco said she was taking care of Conor and that she was in the process of getting her shares back. From what she knew of being a friend to Coco’s, she knew Coco could handle herself, and Ambra didn’t want to probe and had left it alone for the moment.

Ambra refocused on the meal in front of her and the appetizer sitting, looking yummy, across from her.

With each bite of the meal he’d prepared, Ambra was getting wetter and wetter, and when he stood up to get the dessert, her heart skipped a beat. He was completely hard.

“Dessert or me.” He moved close to her, his cock on level with her eyes, and she couldn’t resist taking temptation into her hand and feeling the hard, long length of it.

She heard Michael’s pleased rumble before she was snatched off the chair, and he hurried with her to the bedroom.

Ambra woke up out of a contented sleep, her body feeling languid from the lovemaking Michael and she’d had in the bed. They’d fallen asleep after having dessert. But something had woken her up, and then she heard the beeping sound. She glanced down at her watch and then turned to see that Michael was still asleep with his hands on his chest and his lips slightly parted. She was tempted to lean over and kiss his lips, but if she did, she knew she would wake him up. She silently got out of bed and padded naked toward her front door, where she’d left her laptop in her purse.

Pulling it out, she made her way to the kitchen table as she turned it on. Setting down the laptop, it came alive, and she drew in a breath. She’d successfully breached Ben’s network and had access to his computer. Her fingers flew across the keys on her laptop because she knew she didn’t have much time before he got an alert, and she didn’t want him to know she was in there.

What she found had her enraged in disbelief, and she copied what she’d discovered onto her laptop before closing it out and disabling the remote access to his computer that she’d gained.

She shut her laptop and froze when she saw Michael standing there in the light from the kitchen stove.

He moved out of the shadows and closer to her.

She opened her laptop and opened a folder that she’d copied, turning it around and pushing it toward him on the table. “Did you know about this?” She accused.

“Yes.”

Chapter 17

Diamond held Ben’s hand as they made their way up in his elevator to his business on the 9thfloor. He was facing forward, his face showing no emotion as they made their way up, but Diamond was getting better at reading Ben and knew that he was pleased to be holding her hand. His pupils were dilated slightly, and his thumb rubbed the soft skin on her hand back and forth. Showing her that he was aware of his wife even though he didn’t show his emotions like others did.

She smiled because she was beginning to feel like her husband cared about her. This morning their lovemaking had been different. It had been slow, and Ben took his time kissing and touching every part of her, worshipping her, making her feel wanted and loved. Their orgasm had built slowly between them, but this one she felt was the most powerful because of the deep connection he’d made her feel throughout their lovemaking.

Diamond could finally admit to herself that she’d fallen so deeply in love with her husband and was happy the circumstance had happened the way it did.

Working at home with him had given her a better insight into the quiet, intelligent person Ben was. She’d thought he was closed off from emotion just like everyone else had, but now she knew that wasn’t true. He just expressed it differently, and once you knew him very well, you knew what he was really all about. She had a feeling that the only person that really saw Ben was his mother and now her.

As if feeling her eyes on him, he turned his silver eyes staring down at her, and she leaned up and gave him a gentle kiss that he returned. She pulled back when the elevator dinged, and they headed to his office.

Ben forgot his laptop that he’d needed for an early morning meeting with another client and needed to stop by and get it before dropping Diamond off at work.

She was hoping that they could have a quickie in his office before leaving, and when he opened the door and stopped suddenly with her almost hitting his back, she knew from his tense shoulders that it wasn’t going to happen.

“Hi son, can you let Diamond into the room? We all need to have a discussion.” Diamond heard Carter Sr.’s voice from inside of the room, and her gut clenched before she put on her bored face and entered the room when Ben had stepped aside. She looked into the brown and white sea of faces that stared back at both her and Ben.

She smiled and rushed over to her parents, who stood up and brought her into their warm embrace. They both looked relaxed and very dark. She kissed them just as she felt their kisses on her cheeks, before she pulled back.

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