Page 435 of Now and Forever

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What the hell just happened? “Will you please take your fingers off me?” I’m red with shame and totally beyond humiliated.

Drake takes his fingers off, but fixes my underwear back beforehand. He leans over and kisses the tip of my nose. “I guess you’re still rejecting the idea of us?”

“Damn right, I am. I want to go home now, Drake. I am done playing your games.”

Drake is silent while he stands there watching me. “You’re tired and clearly drunk. You need to rest before we leave for Greece on Sunday.”

“Greece?” I croak. He never mentioned anything about Greece. Well, his agenda has been curiously absent of a few things. Drake seems to love throwing events at me quite unexpectedly.

“One of the biggest investments we have made this year. The movie is called Blasphemous with Bass Cole. I have to see how everything is going and check if they need more for the budget or what not.”

“How long will we be there?” My heart hammers against my chest. I know what this is. Drake is going in for the kill. He is going to drive me crazy until I give it up to him. I haven’t forgotten his ever reliable tactic for women; he’s used it ever since we were kids.

“More or less, three days.”

That’s hell of a long time. A day is enough to drive me mental with him. Three days is surely going to put me on suicide watch. “Work . . . I will work . . . but the underlying agenda you have, Drake, won’t happen.”

“We shall soon find out, Little One.”

Precise. Cold. And fucking determined.

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