Page 91 of The Heir

She's not used to having staff and I don't want to embarrass her unnecessarily.

When we get into the car she lights up at the sight of her phone and her feminine wallet sitting in the seat. I've already replacedher bank cards with ones from our shared accounts. Her face lights up with happiness, making me smile.

"Oh King, thank you!" she half shouts, making my ear ring. "Good morning, Dennis! It's a beautiful day!" she says cheerfully. I scowl as she almost breaks her neck scrambling into the backseat of the car to snatch them up. I slide in a lot more smoothly, steering clear of her erratic movements as she fumbles with both items, almost dropping them in her excitement.

I shake my head and laugh, reaching forward to pluck her wallet out of her hands.

"You're welcome. Now look." I take her clutch and open it up, showing her the cards as we pull off the property to head to the main road. "This one here is for every day use, this one is for emergencies, and this one is for fun, spoiling yourself." I hand it back to her. "Pin number for the every day one is one-twelve-nine."

Her eyes go wide as she takes it out and looks at our names together. "King, I-I have my own money I don't need-" I hush her with a kiss.

"Not in front of our staff please," I say quietly in her ear. Leaning back, I eye her bare lobes, feeling my face tighten. "Isobel, why aren't you wearing earrings?"

She looks over at me. "Uhm…I don't normally wear them. My hair's too thick and it covers my ears." I look down, seeing her ring finger bare.

Absolutely not.

"Dennis, stop the car and double back home please! And get Carlotta on the phone," I say sternly, rubbing my eyes with my fingers. I'm tempted to take the rest of the day off but I have a two o'clock appointment I can't blow, and I need to show Isobel her new office.

"King, what the hell? Why? We were almost to the main street!" Isobel looks at me with wide eyes, but I'm busy addressing Carlotta who's voice comes over the car speaker.

"Yes, Mr. King?"

"Carlotta, go into Mrs. King's jewelry safe and grab me the five carat diamond stud earrings, as well as her wedding ring off the vanity and bring it to the car at the front please."

"Yes sir, be there shortly."

Five minutes later, after a lot of scowls that I shut up with a hard kiss we're back off.

I'm happy now, rubbing my fingers against her wedding ring and seeing the diamonds sparkle in her ears. Thank God she doesn't fight me on this, but she's quiet as she scrolls through her phone and I see what the problem really was. She's damn near breaking her fingers trying to reply to about two hundred missed text messages.

"What are you telling them?" I ask quietly, looking out the window at the city coming into view.

"That I'm okay, and that I'm with you," she murmurs, still tapping like her life depends on it.

"That you're with me, huh?" I say, my voice goes deeper as pleasure hits me hard at her telling everyone about us.

"Uh-huuuh.They wanted to know who the tall, broad hunk in the green tie was, and how did he learn to fight like that."

I chuckle.

"Jesus, mom's so pissed at meeeee," she groans and then throws me such a nasty look I lean away from her, feeling my dick harden to the point of pain.

"I'm sorry, Izzy. I'll talk to her."Again.

She looks back to her phone and gasps. "You had Pablo tell her I was with you so she knew the whole time?!" This time sheslaps my chest, making me grunt."And she thinks I was purposefully ignoring her!"Her voice rises an octave, and her eyes turn into slits, making me lean into her and grab her chin.

Some hitting is okay, these dirty looks of hers aren't.

"You are not allowed to show your ass in the office. You remember what I told you?" Isobel's nose scrunches and she looks at me defiantly. I narrow my eyes. "Don't even think about it, Izzy. I'll punish you, I swear to God."

Desire flashes in her eyes so fast that I almost flip her around and deliver her punishment right here in the car, but I promised myself to never deliver a punishment in front of staff.

"You're not the only one that can give out a punishment." Isobel jerks her chin out of my fingers and resumes her scowl, looking back at her phone, freezing when Christopher's name pops up several times in a row. She clicks on one message and I immediately pull out my phone and dial my security.

"Yes, sir." Gustavo answers. He's in the car behind us with Xavier, tailing us.

"Gustavo, contact Marcus and tell him to bring Christopher to me at four-thirty please. Whatever it takes."

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