"No," he rumbled in my ear. "I have to fuck you. Now."
"Why? Are you marking your territory?" I'd only been half serious with the comment, but he pulled back and the look in his eyes said that was exactly what he was doing.
I wriggled out of his gr...
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"Precious."
It was a quarter after two when I answered my phone to Shawn's voice. We hadn't seen each other that morning. He'd slipped out while I was asleep in his bed, but he'd left my phone next to my head and a text message flashed on it telling me to make myself at home and he'd call me later.
Now, hearing him on the other end of the line, I realized how much I'd missed him in the mere handful of hours we'd been apart.
"Hey," I sighed into the receiver. "I'm glad you called."
"I said that I would."
We'd had so few phone conversations that they still took me by surprise, still delighted me to no end. "I'm glad both that you said you would and that you did."
"You are easily pleased." The smile on his face was apparent through the phone. "How has your day been?"
"Dreadful until this very moment." After Maria and I had parted ways, I'd thrown myself into putting together packages for Julia. The work had been fun and had occupied my mind completely. Still, the horror of the morning clung to me like a shadow.
"Oh? Why? What's wrong?" Immediately Shawn was on guard, ready to fight whatever battle I was facing.
His reaction made me eager to tell him about seeing Paul, but I swiftly reminded myself why that would be a bad idea. "Nothing. Nothing's wrong. Just everything is dreadful in comparison to being with you."
"I feel the same."
Just like that, Shawn could make me weak in the knees. "You don't know what that does to me to hear you say that."
"I can imagine." The husky tone of his words suggested he was imagining much naughtier things than he was saying out loud.
"How did your meetings go?" His change of subject was abrupt, and I was sure he'd been thinking naughty things and now he needed a safer topic of discussion.
Though pleased at Shawn's obvious arousal, I felt the chill of a shadow at the mention of my earlier meeting. "I've only met with one company so far. And it went well. I have to follow up, but I'm pretty sure it's a done deal."
"Of course it is. Who wouldn't want to work with you?"
"Should I make a list?" Before that morning, that list would have included Paul Kresh. Funny how quickly things changed.
"Yes, do. And I'll have each and every one of them shot." Something told me he was only half-kidding. Maybe even less than half. "Do you have any plans this evening?"
I switched over to my browser on my computer and loaded up an image of Shawn to stare at while he spoke. "I had planned to be adored by a hot, virile man." I traced my finger along the strong jaw of the picture on my monitor. "But I could cancel with him if you have something better in mind."
