Page 11 of Devious Temptation
This is an emergency, isn’t it?
I need to say thank you. I don’t want to be rude.
My body buzzes with excitement as I type out a message.
Lucy
Thank you for the cookies… and for the other thing.
He reads it immediately as if his phone were already in his hand and he was going to message me.
Lawson Morgan
You’re welcome.
His response is simple, sending a flood of disappointment rushing through me until I see the three dots that signal he’s typing more.
Lawson Morgan
I won’t be home a lot this week. If you want to clean up the office between practices, I’ll pay you what I’d normally pay my assistant. Just don’t throw anything away, please.
My shoulders slump at his words. I was hoping that we would get a chance to spend more time together.
He clearly does not feel the same.
And now, I feel like an absolute idiot for getting excited at the idea of spending the week with him. Lawson is drawing a line in the sand, and I need to stop acting like a ho and respect that.
Lusting after my boyfriend’s dad? What the hell am I thinking?
I love Rhys. What happened yesterday was inappropriate and absolutely can’t happen again.
Pink takes over my cheeks in a mixture of embarrassment and too much champagne. Putting my phone away without replying, I grab my water glass and gulp it down before pulling the Eggs Benedict closer and asking Nova to pass me the platter of roasted potatoes.
I have practice later. I’ll just work extra hard to work off the carbs.
Six
DoI have to work late all week?
Yes.
Is it because I picked up even more work than usual, so I didn’t have to be at the house?
Also yes.
The memory of Lucy’s brother answering the door Sunday morning replays in my head repeatedly. His calculating stare as I handed over the cookie box—how the cogs in his brain worked overtime as he tried to figure out why I was there at nine in the morning, with cookies, of all things, for his sister.
“Wasn’t she just there last night?”
Scratching the back of my neck, I nod and gesture to the box. “Yeah, but everyone ate them before she could set some aside to take home. I was making a batch for the office and thought I’d drop some off.”
All lies. And Liam stared at me like heknewI wasn’t telling the truth.
The kid is way more intelligent than anyone gives him credit for.
Drumming my fingers on the desk, I take in my now spotless and completely organized office while waiting for Rhys to get ready to go to Lucy’s. All week, I managed to avoid her. Tried to steel myself from thinking of her naked body and the way she looked down at my cock. She never responded to my last text message, yet she still showed up to clean my mess.
My days have been shit—downright dull without her bright colors and infectious laugh brightening up the room. I didn’t realize just how much I enjoyed having Lucy around until the entire week went by and I hadn’t seen her once.
