Page 32 of Raging Heat

“Good to know.”He smiles.“Let me.”He holds out his hand and I give him the shampoo.

His fingers feel like heaven as he massages my scalp, almost making me sleepy.

Then I remember what he said about not being able to hide a belly in a fitted suit.

We might soon be pregnant.

I linger my hand on my lower belly.

If everything goes well, my body will start to change.Ourbodies will start to change.

Wow.

“Canyou read these and sort them by ones I need to look at immediately and ones that can wait a few more days?”Mathew hands me a tablet, his email app already open on it.

We’re fresh from the shower and cuddling up in the big pink heart-shaped pillow in the corner of the bedroom.We didn’t want to go back into the nest room because it’s stuffy and still full of pheromones.We’ll need to air it out before we go back into it.

“I thought that Timothy did stuff like that for you?”I eye the long list of emails.There are over a hundred unread ones… Fuck.

“He does.These are the ones that he thought were important enough to send through to me and not take care of himself.”Mathew makes himself comfortable against my side, his head on my shoulder, tapping on something on his phone.

He acts exactly how I am with Caleb the morning after my heat has ended, all soft and cuddly.Only, Mathew is a lot bigger than me, so the balance is totally off.

It’s still really cute and I like it when he looks soft like this.It makes my heart flutter.

“And while I do your work, what are you going to do?”I side-eye him, even though he can’t see it.

“Checking if Timothy’s team found anything about the bounties.If someone has shown an interest yet.And then check on how far they’ve gotten with updating the security systems.”

The bounties…

Crap.I’d almost forgotten about them.

Though, we have been pretty busy these last couple of days, but still, I can’t believe I’d forgotten about them.I can’t believe I forgot that people want us dead.That they’re willing to pay a lot of money for people to kill us.

I still can’t believe that Hubert Russell’s pack would go that far.

Mathew moves, pulling us so I’m now nestled against his side, as he lets out a soothing rumble.“Don’t worry about it.It’s a bother, but I’ve dealt with this plenty of times before.There’s nothing to worry about.”He kisses the top of my head.“You’re perfectly safe.”

He might say that, but his actions say something different with how focused he is on improving the security and wanting us at his side at all times.His actions say that he’s also worried about things.

But it’s also clear that he doesn’t want to talk about it right now.

I stare at the tablet.“Is it okay for me to see all these emails?Won’t there be anything in there that could be sensitive or something like that?I know that they’re work emails, so not anything private.But I mean… something like trade secrets or whatever.”I ramble, trying to change the topic, trying to stop thinking of horrible things.

At least, horrible things that involve us…

He chuckles, pointing at the tablet with his phone.“There won’t be anything in them that you’ve not heard me discuss while you were listening in on my phone calls.And you already know what I do, there shouldn’t be any surprises.”

“Right…” It still feels weird.

“Or you can read one of your naughty books or do something else.That’s totally fine too.”He nuzzles the side of my head.“I just thought that you might be interested in learning more about the business.It would be nice to run this operation together, you know?”

“I’m interested.I’ve just never done anything like this before.I’ve only graduated high school, so nobody ever put me in charge of the admin side of anything.”I stare at my hands.“I have no idea if I’m even smart enough to do work like this.I have no training or anything like that.”

He sits up straighter, his attention shifted as he looks at me in excitement.“Would you like to learn about running a business?I think I’ve still got my old books.And anything you don’t understand, just ask Timothy.That’s what I did.”He grins, his eyes shining.

“Are you sure?”

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