Page 37 of Unbuttoning Her Brooding Boss

‘So when did you contact them to let them know you were arriving a day early?Andwith a guest?’

Because hadn’t they put their phones in the glove compartment and made a bet not to use them?

He didn’t answer. But his guilty expression couldn’t be hidden.

‘Youcalledthem.’ She struggled to work it out. ‘When I was asleep in the car.’ Her eyes narrowed. ‘Youcheated.’She couldn’t believe it. ‘Now you owe me, you realise?’

‘I do,’ he conceded, without looking remotely apologetic. ‘And Iwasgoing to confess.’

‘When?’

‘When the time was right.’

‘Like next century?’

‘Like the second I remembered what you’d asked for.’ Her muscles thrummed.

‘Two hours’ hard labour.’ He sent her a smouldering look and started to unbutton his sopping shirt. ‘How would you like me to pay up?’

There was a beat. The air seemed to be sweltering, making it impossible for her to breathe. To get badly needed oxygen to her brain. Tothink.Except she didn’t want to think any more. She wanted only tofeel.To enjoy thisescape.‘You know already.’

This was why he’d been so keen to ensure her pleasure. To make her say yes and yes and yes again.

‘Tell me.’ He shrugged off the shirt and started on his trousers.

She couldn’t.

‘Did you want me to kiss you some more?’

Slowly she nodded. ‘I want you to work very... hard.’

‘I will do all the work. And I’m already hard. I’ve been hard since the second I first saw you.’

‘You looked like you hated me.’

‘No.’ He kicked his trousers off. ‘I didn’t want to want you.’

‘Why not?’

‘I had... other things on my mind.’

‘What’s on your mind now?’

‘Nothing but you.’

‘This is why you brought me here? You decided back then?’

He frowned. ‘I didn’t bring you here expressly to—’

‘Didn’t you?’ she challenged huskily. ‘Am I not here to distract you? To be your entertainment?’

Something flashed in his eyes. ‘Actually, I want to entertainyou.’

‘Oh, that makeseverythingokay, then.’

‘Iwillplease you. For more than two hours. For all the night.’

‘Show me how you plan to do that.’

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