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“I tend to make those. You’re the one who comes in from behind and fixes it.”
“You’re not even sorry.”
“Why should I be? I’d rather lose the company than lose you. It’s very simple.”
“It is not. That’s a lot of money, Adam. You’re not just a regular guy. You’re a billionaire. With ab.Your inventions alone are bringing in massive royalties in perpetuity. Your children’s children are going to be rich.”
“Our children’s children,” he corrects me.
I glare at him again. “Think about it.”
“Nova, I’m going to need you to step out of executive assistant mode for a second and look at this my way.” He leans forward. “I’m willing to die for you. If I’m willing to literally lose my life, then on a sliding scale of doing absolutely nothing to disappearing from the earth, the money is a moot point.”
I half-snort. “How do you come up with those lines?”
“They come to me.”
“Tell them to leave.”
He presses a kiss to my lips. “No.”
“You are the worst,” I mumble, already melting.
“And somehow, I got lucky.” His eyes are on me. I sense that his joke was purely innocent, but it hits on a nerve.
The dirty little cat that purrs for Adam is awake.
And after the craziness of fake weddings, real funerals, attempted burglaries and who knows what else that could be waiting around the corner for us, I want a different kind of chaos. One that will leave me in happy tears rather than perpetual frowns.
“How lucky are we talking here?” I ask smoothly. Then I tilt my head. “I’m asking for clarification purposes.”
With a smile, he wraps me in his arms and binds me to his chest. “That depends on you.”
“In that case,” I walk my fingers up his shirt, “I might need some convincing. Preferably a well-designed PowerPoint presentation with an accompanied nine-page summary of the pros and cons.”
“Hm.” Adam plants a kiss on my cheek and then another, using his lips to draw a soft line up to my temple. There, he presses his nose to my braids, inhales and says, “Pro—I love you and you love me.”
“That’s it?”
“Give me a second. When you look at me like that, I lose track of my thoughts.”
I can’t help it. I pounce on him. My lips capture Adam’s and I sip from his mouth, sucking all the sweetness from his bottom lip. The connection between us burns hot and bright. I want to shrug out of my jacket before I realize that I’m not even wearing one.
Adam’s hand comes up to cradle my face and tilt my head so he can deepen the kiss. His mouth is firm and hot and delicious. So delicious that I groan when he leans back.
“Still need a PowerPoint presentation?”
I crack an eye open and catch him smirking. “That was a good start. I might bend the rules for you.”
“A very wise decision, Miss Delaney.”
I leak a smile, feeling like a fool. But a happy one. The walls between us have all come crumbling down. We’ve weathered every kind of storm imaginable and we’ll continue to ride those waves. Together. Because I might be powerful on my own, but with Adam, I’m unstoppable.
We meet in another hungry kiss. His hand slides over my back, down my hip and over my thighs. I groan at how exquisitely good it feels. He starts unbuttoning his shirt and places my hand on his flexing abs. After one touch, I’m gone. I’m drowning. I’m getting barreled over by a lust so great I can barely contain it.
I want Adam. In all the ways a woman can want a man. And in all the positions a man can have a woman.
He’s my partner. My friend. My lover. My family. My future.
