Page 78 of Winter Glam in Amsterdam

Perfect for me.

Summer

“Crawl to me.”

My eyes instantly shoot away from my laptop screen over to Tanner in his recording booth. Immediately upon meeting his eyes, his lips stretch into a cocky smirk, and he shoots me a wink before he focuses on his script once more.

"That's it, you’re such a good girl."

Well, I guess that concludes my workday. With a grin, I log out of my work account and close my laptop, getting up to put it on table at the far end of the room.

It's been a little less than a year since Tanner collected me at the airport like a freshly abandoned puppy and we decided to give this thing between us a chance.

Well,Idecided to give us a chance, having no idea where life would lead us and if there was a way we could make it through.

But life has a funny way of working out.

As dejected as I was right after that whole airport ordeal, once I had let some time pass and taken a short breather from applications again, things worked out better than I ever expected.

I didn't make it to the company that Tanner's friend works for. Just like he said, he only gave my application a little nudge. This was never meant to turn into a nepotism hire.

I still told him to stay out of my future job applications.

And once I started to apply again, luck was on my side, and only three weeks later, I secured a job that exceeded all of my expectations. And the best thing about it? It's fully remote, which means that it doesn't matter if I work from Tanner's home or mine.

A few months after I started work, I took Luca up on his offer to permanently move into his old house. How could I not? It’s close to my parents, close enough to Tanner that we canspontaneously pick whether we want to spend the day together or apart.

Someday I will start looking for my own space. A space that I can decorate exactly how I want it. But for now, as I need a quiet spot to work and hone my independence, this was the best possible solution.

And I have to say, Mom and Dad also seem more than happy to have their house back to themselves.

I need to keep the guest room ready for Luca in case he wants to drop by, but that was really the only condition he gave me and in exchange for free rent, how could I say ‘no?’

Now, having him as a guest can either be fun as hell or my own personal hell. And whenever it's the latter, I just get into my car and spend a few days with Tanner, just like today.

While I'm sure we'll be having the "moving in together" conversation sooner or later, right now, this works perfectly for us.

Thankfully, there have been no more emergencies over the past year. No more disappearances in the middle of the night, no waking up wondering where he went, no more ghosting.

Although I've since learned that he's not a strong message writer in general, but at least I'll get some kind of reaction if I send him one.

"Now, open my pants and take out my cock. That's it, sweetheart."

I shake my head, yanked back to reality and grin, hugging a pillow to my chest as I listen.

Goddamn, his voice still never fails to make me hot. No wonder his audiobook spots have been booked out months in advance.

And I love working alongside him—getting to listen to him as I work or getting some foreplay in the form of listening to him narrating steamy scenes, just like right now.

"Yes, that's it," he growls into his microphone, making me look around for something to fan myself with.

"Take it deeper, baby girl. I know you can."

He closes his eyes. I’d once asked him what he imagined when he closed his eyes during spicy scenes, but it only earned me a pointed look that made me blush.

"Yeah, just like that. Come on, take all of me."

I think he's doing some kind of duet narration, where his counterpart is narrating the rest of the scene, and he's only speaking the dialogue. But honestly, the dialogue is all it takes to make me squirm in my seat.

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