He nodded. “How’s the eye?”
“Painful,” she admitted. “I’ll survive.”
They disentangled and she tried very hard not to feel a sense of loss. It was just the warmth of his body against hers that she missed.
As they walked, a thought struck her. She pulled a search, considered briefly, and then clickedBuy Now. Luke glanced at her, and she put away the phone before he could see.
When they got upstairs, Kelly caught her. “Eye OK?”
“It’ll be fine,” she said. The eye, at least. Maybe not everything else. “The ice pack definitely helped.”
Kelly nodded. “Good work on the analyst deck, by the way.”
Morgan gave her a shocked smile. But then Brad came out and caught Luke’s eye. He gestured Luke into his office. Morgan followed him and he didn’t stop her, at least.
“First,” said Brad, “why do I have an invitation to the Swiss Marathon?”
“You said you wanted to go to Davos,” Luke said guilelessly.
“I want to go to the World Economic Forum in Davos!” Brad said. “In January! I don’t want to run up and down twenty-six miles of mountains.”
Luke blinked at him, his face a picture of innocence. “My apologies. I didn’t realize that the Davos resort had multiple events. Ronaldo said alpha men like marathons.”
“Ronaldo is, like, a baby alpha at best,” Brad rolled his eyes. Morgan kept her face very, very still.
“Again, my apologies.” Luke bowed slightly.
“Fine, but get it right next time.” Brad huffed.
Something above them slammed and all three of them jumped.
“And do something permanent about those construction noises!”
That one, she could get behind.
“But more importantly—you promised me investors.”
“Indeed.”
“So I need that investor meeting. Pronto, ASAP, whatever you understand. I want a meeting with Ravenfell. And you’re going to make sure it goes perfectly.”
Ravenfell. The vampire venture capital group. Morgan tried to keep her swallow from being visible.
“Ravenfell meeting, next week,” Brad repeated. “We’ll go there. Our offices aren’t impressive enough. Yet. Got it?”
“As you wish,” Luke said.
“And you,” Brad rounded on her. “You’re running the deck. You’ve got something better than that to wear, right?”
She nodded, her mouth going dry. Although if she walked into a boardroom full of vampires, the last thing she was going to worry about was if her shoes had cost enough.
15
Models. We could break into New York Fashion Week.”
Gisele shook her head. “Next Fashion Week is in September.”
With Luke’s influence, Ravenfell had been amenable to setting a meeting date for the following week. But Lucareoth’s bracelet had continued to buzz angrily all Friday night and Saturday morning, until Morgan wanted to grab it off his wrist and throw it into the harbor.
