Page 13 of Boundless Love
“Then why do you look so worried?See, this is why I didn’t even want to bring it up.I know how important it is to both of us that the girls?—”
“Would you stop for a second?”I asked with a laugh.“You’re ten miles ahead of me.I need to catch up.”
“Sorry,” she breathed out.“I’m just… I’m nervous.”
“About what?”
“I don’t know… about what you think.I know we talked about me not having to go back to work, and you know how much it means to me being with the girls.I love that they have stability.That they grow up knowing I’m always there for them.But…” She trailed off, frowning while lifting a shoulder.
“You can be just as amazing a mother while working to improve the lives of other kids.”That, I knew beyond the shadow of a doubt.“What I need to hear is, is this what you want to do?Because if it is, I wouldn’t stop you.I want you to have everything you need, no matter what it is.”
“Until Leah suggested that job, I thought I had everything I needed,” she insisted.“But this was my dream before I ever met you, and I guess it was still sort of way down deep inside me.”
The idea of her suppressing her dreams for my sake was unacceptable.“I understand.And I am telling you, I want whatever you want.We’ll make it work, no matter what.”
Her face glowed when she smiled, and only then did I understand how much strain she’d been carrying around.“I still want to think about it a little bit, but knowing you’re behind me means everything.”
“Always,“ I told her, and I meant it.
Even if it would mean rethinking my plans a little.
She must have noticed the way my face fell because hers did in response.“What is it?You don’t really like this idea, do you?”
“It isn’t that I don’t like it.”I could only laugh at myself for being a fucking idiot.“I have taken it for granted that you would always be home with the girls, and now I’m seeing what an asshole move that was.”
Her face fell.“What do you mean?”
“I mean, I’ve been considering expanding to Portugal.”
“You what?Since when?”
I filled her in on the high points, which didn’t take very long since the idea was nothing more than a sketchy, vague notion.“There I was, assuming you would always be there.That was wrong.I should’ve discussed it with you before I ever asked my team to run the numbers.”
She fell silent for a long moment, and I sat back to watch the wheels turning in her head.“Things are going to be pretty messy for a while, I guess,” she murmured.“I mean, you hired me to help you get through the New York expansion, and now we’re looking at expanding overseas.I don’t want to add any extra stress to the situation.”
“No.Don’t do that.”Suddenly, everything was so clear.“Take the job if that’s what you want.And if Portugal is meant to be, I’ll make it happen.We have all the resources in the world at our fingertips.I don’t need to be over there very much physically.I have staff for a reason.I have assistants, partners, and people I can trust.If this means I need to trust them a little more and get out of the way, so be it.If it means going back to the agency where I found you to look for another nanny for the girls, so be it.Though I doubt we’deverfind anyone like you.”
Her eyes narrowed, and her lips pursed.“I hope not because look what happened when you hired me,” she reminded me with a wry chuckle.
“Honey…” reaching across the table, I took her hand and closed mine over it, “… I am a one-woman man.That,you never have to worry about.We’ll make it work.I want you to have everything you need, whatever it takes to make you feel happy and fulfilled.And there will never be a day in our daughters’ lives when they don’t feel completely loved and supported.I know it for sure.That’s all they need.”
“So, you don’t hate the idea of me working?”she asked, wincing a little.“You keep talking about how I’m the glue holding us together.What if I can’t be the glue anymore?”
“We’ll figure it out.”
It was amazing, the change that came over her.The way her smile widened in relief.“I feel a lot better now,” she confessed.Her bottom lip disappeared under her teeth, and a familiar light sparkled in her eyes.“So, how about we go back and I show you what I bought today?”
There was a small problem with that idea.“You think I’ll be able to wait until we get back to the hotel?”I asked, signaling for the check.“I’ve already spent all of my self-control.”
She laughed, but I wasn’t kidding.And I proved it as soon as we were in the back seat of the limo that Clay had arranged for us tonight.“Take the scenic route,” I told the driver, then raised the privacy partition between us.
I didn’t waste any time reaching for her and pulling her into my lap so fast she didn’t realize what was happening.Not that I thought she would resist.No, in fact, she wound her arms around my neck and treated me to a deep, slow kiss.And I thought I was hard before.That was nothing compared to the way I strained and twitched, eager to sink deep inside her wet heat.
“I love you.”She wiggled in my lap, rubbing against me, leaving me groaning into her mouth as our kisses heated up along with the caresses we shared.
“I adore you,” I whispered back, working my hands under her dress and gripping her ass, pulling her as close as I could to my dick.“And later on, you’ll have to model your new lingerie for me.Right now?I want it out of the way.”
“I can do that for you.”Reaching between us, she pulled the crotch of her panties aside so I could enter her with two fingers.She rode hard, letting her head fall back, giving me access to her throat and the creamy swells of her tits.
