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“Remember that next time.”
“Don’t worry, I will.”
“When you see Gage, tell him to call me.When I haven’t heard from him this long it means he’s up to something.”
I leave the precinct and decide to go back to the office to pick up the legal documents I left on Friday.I grin as I look at my desk, remembering how hot Cat was on it.I turn to , and there she is.What is she doing here?She’s not supposed to come back until tomorrow.
“Hello, Nick.”
She closes the door and walks to me.The first time I saw her, she walked into my office, tall, beautiful, long blonde hair, sophisticated, hips swaying, sexy as hell.We were a match for each other in every way.She worked as hard as I did, and we played even harder, especially in the bedroom.At one point I thought maybe I could see myself marrying her.Glad I dogged that bullet to the head.Too bad it grazed my heart, though.I watch her slide her fingers down between the collars of my coat.
“Aren’t you going to say hello to me, Nick?”
“What are you doing here on a Sunday, Paige?You’re not due to come back till tomorrow.”
She sits in the chair in front of me, crossing her leg over the other, making her skirt ride up enough that I could see her underwear—if she wore any, which she doesn’t.
“I took an earlier flight.After I called you yesterday and they spoke to you, the deal was done.I saw no other reason to stay by myself.It’s not like when we were there together like last time.”
Whenever we would go away for business, we would stay in the same room.We believed in mixing business with pleasure—a lot of pleasure.Even after we broke up.
“Nick, we were good together.”
She gets up, not bothering to pull her skirt down, and brushes up against me like a feline.I watch her and will my body not to react.By now we would have been all over each other, with her legs and ass up in the air.But I need to get back to Cat.The last thing I want to do is fuck up, and being here alone with Paige is the beginning of fucking up.
“The sex was good,” I say, stone-faced, with no intentions of having any type of contact with her.
“Yes, it was, but that’s not all that was good.Don’t act like you don’t care about me, Nick.”
She runs her fingernail along my jawline.I take her wrist and put her hand down to her side, looking at her without blinking an eye.“I have to go, Paige.”She pouts and looks back at me and doesn’t move out of my way.
“Nick, you can’t ignore me.Don’t act like we didn’t have something good!”
“We had something, I don’t know how good it was.We won’t find out because you fucked it up.That was the best thing you could have done for me.”
“Really, why’s that?”
“Right now I’m going home to the best thing that ever happened to me, and the sex is fan-fricking-tastic, out of this world.”
She sneers at me and rolls her eyes up and down my body.“Ha, that will be over before the month is up.So that’s why you didn’t answer your phone last night.When you’re done with your plaything of the month, call me.”
“Goodbye, Paige.”I walk past her and open my door so she can get the hell out.I lock it behind me and head home to the best thing to happen to me.
There was no way I was going to answer the phone last night with Cat next to me.Paige took up enough of my time in the bathroom yesterday—that’s what took me so long.She could have handled those minor issues with the Paxtons without calling me.
When I walk in to my apartment, I hear pots and pans clanging and music playing.Cat’s there, her back turned to me, in the big, white fluffy robe.I walk up behind her silently and press her to the counter with my body, making her jump and yelp.
“Nick!Don’t do that, you scared the crap out of me.”
I kiss her on the cheek and her lips.“I’m sorry, baby.I couldn’t help myself.You looked so cute standing here.What are you doing?”
“I was waiting for you.I couldn’t go back to sleep after you left.”
“I didn’t mean to wake you up so early.”
“It’s okay.Since I couldn’t sleep, I decided to make you breakfast.It’s not as good as yours, but it’s edible.”
“I hope it’s as edible as you.”I kiss her neck.“If it is, then I’m going to love it.”She bites the side of her lower lip and smiles.I follow her over to the table and take a seat.She whips the lid off a dish.Eggs, bacon, toast, and strawberries are on the plate.
