“You know she’ll use those profits to return your investment, right?”
“Good.That means she won’t be able to move out for a while.”
I wasn’t so sure Mom would rush to move out even if she had the money.Not when we still didn’t know who’d been sabotaging our lives for the last decade.
That thought sparked another selling point.
If her attacker found out about the investment, they might rush to make another move before she could profit.And we needed them to make that move before we announced my connection to Konni.
The idea that they might quietly retreat because of the Steele name made me angry.How would Mom ever recover without answers?Names?
“I’ll call her after this.Are you okay with me sending the email to Pennly if she agrees?”
Konni’s slow smile distracted me from the conversation and my sandwich.
“I’m okay with everything you do, Sophia.”
“What if I want to tease you so much over lunch that you can’t think of anything else but me for the rest of the day?”
“I’m already there,” he said.
“Not yet, but if you ask me nicely, I’ll ensure you’re painfully aware of how distracted you are until it’s time to take me home so I can finish what I start.”
Bright gold flecks exploded into existence around his suddenly elongated pupils.
The bulge in his pants was already noticeably impressive.
“Yes.”The word was once again a drawn-out hiss.
“That’s not asking me nicely.”
“Please make me painfully distracted for the rest of the day.”
His knee rubbed against my leg, and I fought not to grin.Playing with fire had never been so tempting.
“One rule: no touching me.I can only touch you.”
He froze, and his gaze darted to his knee.It took three full seconds for it to move away.
Blatantly dropping my gaze to his pants, I slowly ate the rest of my sandwich, well aware of the fantasy my actions were building in his mind based on the twitches there.Once the last bite was in my mouth, Konni let out a pained breath, and his head dropped back onto the couch, proof that anticipation could be more potent than the touch itself.
“Since we have a plan for the Riverfront project, we should talk about the Southside build.”I straddled his lap.“You gave the marketing department two extra weeks to come up with something better than my design.We should meet tomorrow to see what they have.Don’t you agree?”
I leaned into him, chest to chest, and rubbed my cheek against his.The volume of his sudden rumbling made me glad I’d closed the door.
“Konni?Did you hear me?”I asked, rubbing my chest against his.
“Yes.”The exhale behind the sound teased my ear.
“I’ll check your calendar.”
I added my hips into the mix.Undulating cheek, torso, and hips in a way that kept contact and pressure, took concentration and faith…that there were no cameras to capture the moment.
No matter how loud it made him purr, I knew I looked like I was using him like a giant napkin.But if my man wanted rubbing, I’d give it to him in a way that would make him crave more.
He started trembling.
At first, I thought it was his purr, but a significant twitch below indicated it was more than that.
