Page 27 of Boss On Notice
“There was a lot more than wine being bibbed,” Mina jokes.
“I’m sorry, are you here alone?” Lina asks Lynx, her high tone disarmingly curious.
She’s shamelessly pursuing this man who’s a beautiful work of art, and I admire her boldness.
“No. Wait a minute, Lina,” Mina says, wagging her finger. “You two—where did you wake up this morning?”
“In my bed,” I say, sounding way too defensive.
“Were you in her bed too, O?” Mina asks.
That’s right, Orion’s friends call him “O.”
“No, I found him in his own bed,” Heather exclaims as if she’s offended by the question.
Hmm…she must’ve arrived after I left. I wonder if he had sex with her after he and I did whatever we had done last night. Dear Lord, I want to groan out my misery of not knowing the truth. However, by the confusion on Orion’s face, I don’t think he knows we were in bed together.
Fingers crossed.
“I was in my own bed,” Orion concurs. I can sense his gaze burning a hole in the side of my face, but I refuse to let my eyes meet his.
“Then where did you go?” Mina’s like a dog with a bloody bone.
“I don’t know. I can’t remember,” Orion says. “What about you, Delilah? What do you remember?”
“Umm…” I press my lips, trying to recall something, anything—a little something to make it seem as if we had gone our separate ways and hadn’t ended up in bed together naked as jaybirds. My breaths are coming quicker as I come to grips with one undeniable fact. I had sex with Orion. Oh my God, we fucked and the evidence points to the fact that we did it without a condom. What if I’m pregnant? What if he gave me an STD? The way he gets around… The women he bangs… Oh God…
“You okay, Lilly?” Lina asks.
My head is spinning. “Huh?” Also, my throat is dry, so I swallow hard to moisten it.
The tip of her finger is aimed at my face. “Because all the blood just drained from your face.” Her cheeks blow out as she stifles a laugh.
“Leave her alone, Lina. It’s clear they left together, but she was too drunk to remember what happened afterward,” Mina says. “She was terribly inebriated. But you weren’t so fucked-up, O. Let her off the hook already.”
Orion grimaces as he looks off.Oh my goodness, he can’t remember either.
“I took her out to get some air.”
“And then?” Mina asks.
“And then…” Orion cocks his head to one side. “We went to Abracadabra.”
“We didn’t see you there,” Lina says.
“But we arrived at around what, two,” Mina reminds her.
Why did I let my gaze connect with his? He’s watching me so intently that my head is spinning. I’m on the verge of admitting that I woke up in his bed. I think he already knows.
“That’s where I lose track of time,” he says, watching me as if he’s willing me to recall what happened.
“But you woke up in your own bed?” Lynx asks.
I quickly turn to face him, happy to be released from Orion’s spell, and then nod stiffly. “Yes.”No.
“Then that settles that. You went back to your own room and went to bed.” Wow, what a way to “Svengali” our little situation. I would like him even more, but surprisingly, I’m having a hard time doing that when Orion is standing so close to me. What are these emotions swirling through me from head to toe? They’re nonsensical. I can’t feel this way,I just can’t.
“It seems so,” Orion says with a quick pinch of his nostrils as he eyes Lynx suspiciously.
