Page 16 of Tempting Gabe
He let her hands go and she curled them around her glass at the same time she looked away. "Ask me anything."
"I haven't had a steady girlfriend since I returned home." Wow. Her heart beat faster in her chest while she thought that he was asking her.
She flipped her hair behind her ears as she tried to silence the thunder she felt inside. "You haven't?"
He scooted closer to her and she could sense her desire growing, which made no sense, except that she more than liked him. "Megan, I know we just met and that your brother wants to kill me, but I hope when this is all over you'll consider sticking around and just be with me when it's quiet."
Anything he wanted. She lowered her head and reached out for his hand. "Yes. I'll be your girlfriend."
"Good."
He was so close. In that white T-shirt of his, he was sexy and adorable. She leaned closer to kiss him, when his phone beeped out an alarm. She sat straighter but she clutched the table like it might help her. "Why is it going off now?"
"I don’t know. Let me check." He said and jumped out of his seat and reached for his laptop.
Right. The bell his phone and not on the wall so there was no fire. She uncurled her hand from the table and picked up her coffee cup. She poured more coffee for both of them cranked while he returned with his laptop and typed fast. She gave him a few minutes, and she finished her second cup fast. Thirty seconds later, she took the seat next to him.
"What's happening?" she asked as she curled closer to him.
He glanced at her and gave her leg a squeeze. "Give me a minute."
"Okay." She stared at the screen, but to her the words on the screen seemed gibberish. If he looked at her accounting files, he'd probably think the same, so she waited.
He typed fast and finished in a blink. "Someone is cyber-attacking Hawke Inc. I have to go to the office."
Her own job was how she paid her bills so she completely understood his rush to his job. "Ohh. Well should I go to work then?"
"No." He reached out, held her closer and kissed her forehead. "This is an old military maneuver where you hit both sides of the army at the same time to throw off the planks.”
“I don’t understand.”
“I have an emergency situation. I’d bet money that you're about to get an emergency that will separate us and it's better for both of us if we stick together like glue."
With Gabe, she'd have a shot at not spending her life alone, which was what she assumed her life was heading toward. She nodded and he let his hold on her lessen. She turned her chair toward the kitchen. "This is a lot of food we haven't touched."
He put his head on her shoulder and hugged her over the chair. "Does that mean you agree?"
She turned back toward him and nodded. Then she kissed his cheek. "As long as there is time for me to eat. I'm famished."
Before she could scoot her chair toward the table, Gabe shoved a laptop in front of her. "Okay, please check your email from this computer."
She narrowed her gaze while she rested her fingers on the keyboard. "Why?"
"I have a tracker on this that will reverse any worms you have."
With a deep breath, she logged on and found the email service. She clicked in, placed her hand on Gabe's thigh. "There is an email from Maddox."
"Read it but remember it will be news that will want to separate us."
She held her breath and read.Sis, I'm sorry about yesterday. I went to Mom's grave before I left town and someone had vandalized her headstone.
She felt an electric zap and fisted her hands. "My mother doesn't deserve to be part of this."
"Whatever happened, I can get it fixed."
Gabe and his money hasn’t given Maddox any right to do this. This was wrong, and Gabe should not have to fix what her brother had done, vandalizing their mother's eternal resting place. She scooted out of her seat. "That's not the point. Maddox shouldn't..."
"You can't control him." Gabe said as packed his laptop and fixed their chairs to face their breakfast that had been pushed aside.
