Page 30 of Her Billionaire Boss
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I figured the best way to break the news to Matt that I’d invited my parents to come visit us without consulting him first was to do so in something sexy.When we got home from work, I went to my dressing room and found some lingerie that screamed “please don’t be mad at your princess.”It was a lacy lilac shelf bralette that barely covered my nipples, matching thong panties, and a garter belt with sheer gray silk stockings.
Matt had gone into his media room to relax.He hadn’t even changed yet but sat on the couch with a remote in his hand, mindlessly flipping channels with his tie hanging undone around his open collar.When he saw me, he sat straight up.
“Hi there.”I wiggled my fingers at him.
“Wow, princess.You look...”He blew out a long breath and started to his feet.
“No, no.I’ll come to you.”I stepped carefully across the plush rug in my lilac satin-and-marabou stilettos.He tossed the remote aside and sat back, knees apart in the kind of man-spread that would be infuriating on public transport, but which made me ache to drop to me knees at the moment.
I knelt on the sofa beside him and crawled my way into position, ass up in his lap.“I think you need to spank me, my dragon.”
His big, hot hand cupped my ass.One finger traced the thong where it split my cheeks.“I do?”
“I did something very naughty, without your permission.”
His hand stilled.“Wait, did you come after I told you to wait until tonight?Because if you did...when?And how?In detail, before I dole out the punishment.”
I’d forgotten about the edict he’d sent me via text after our interrupted cunnilingus.“Not that, no.I still haven’t.”
Now that I remembered I hadn’t, my attention was diverted to more throbbing matters.
I forced myself back to the issue at hand.“What I did was...well...I invited my parents to come for a visit.”
“Your parents.”
“And Scott.”I squeezed my eyes shut and anticipated a spank.
“When?”he asked, and I couldn’t gauge his tone.Was he as mad as I anticipated he would be, or was I ascribing inflection where there was none?
He slipped an arm beneath my legs and sat me up, still on his lap but at least without the blood rushing to my head.But that meant I had to look him in the eyes.
“I’m sorry.I should have asked you first.I wasn’t thinking, it came out because, I don’t know, they called me at work, and I got homesick and panicked and—”
“I’m not mad,” he said quickly.“I just want to know what arrangements we need to make.And I need time to...you know.Get brave.”
“Get brave?You’ve met my parents before,” I pointed out.
“I know, but not as the guy who’s living with their daughter.Their daughter who is a lot younger than me,” he added grimly.
It was weird, but our age difference didn’t come up between us, almost ever.There was the occasional reference I didn’t get, but when Matt and I were alone, it wasn’t something at the front of our minds.
“Do you think my dad is going to threaten your life or something?Drag Chris Hansen along?”I teased.
“Wow, I haven’t heard that reference in a while,” Matt said.
I pivoted back to the real conversation.“We didn’t set anything in stone.Honestly, I thought they would tell me that they couldn’t come for this or that reason, but my dad is ready to see all the museums, probably the Statue of Liberty.Corny stuff.I can take them around to all of that.And we can get them a hotel—”
“If they want to stay in a hotel.Otherwise, we have the guest suites downstairs,” he reminded me.
It seemed so weird to have houseguests, people visiting full time, round the clock, who never left.Then, I remembered the party at his mom’s house.That scenario wasn’t that odd for his culture, I guessed.
But it wasn’t normal for my kind of people.“The thing is, if they stay here, they’re going to expect to socialize with us the whole time.”
“Of course, we’ll socialize with them.That’s why they’re visiting.”
“No, I meant it’s not going to be like when people come stay as house guests at your mom’s place.It’s not like they’ll get up, have their breakfast in a different room, spend time wandering the lush grounds, and show up only at set times,” I warned him.
