Page 56 of Empire of Ash


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Soaking in a hot bath helped.But as I sit up in Noel’s bed in my pajamas, laptop open on my lap, I still hurt.

Everywhere.

Apparently, that’s the price you pay for a week of marathon, fairly hardcore sex with fuck-god who happens to be hung like a brontosaurus.

I havezeroregrets. Well, except when I try to sit. Or walk. Or stretch. Or do basically anything but sit in a hot tub with bath oils.

My muscles ache from our seven-day streak. My jaw hurts from… I blush.

Practicing.

My ass stings from a thousand eagerly begged-for spanks. And the dull, delicious ache between my legs won’t seem to quit.

I shift on the bed, wincing a little as the cross-legged way I’m sitting stretches my groin muscles painfully. But once I’m settled, I take a deep breath and focus on the laptop in front of me.

My new one, actually. Noel caught me working hunched over the chipped keyboard with the wobbly “M” key of my cracked laptop the other day. An hour later, when I went back to my room after lunch, I had a brand new, state-of-the-art laptop sitting on my desk, with all of my information already migrated to it.

The being in Noel’s bed thing is new, too. It’s not like we had a sit-down talk, where he hashed out “rules” or anything—which, in hindsight, is shocking given who he is. It’s just that slowly, the divide between “my space” and “his space” seems to be blurring.

Well, it was always blurred in one direction, with his barged-in entrances to my room basically any time he wanted. Now, it’s a little more of a two-way street.

I’ve chosen to not look too deeply into that.

My eyes scan the documents open on the screen in front of me. Tomorrow’s my big sit-down presentation at Charm, Inc, with Jacob and his team. And the presentation needs to beflawless. I mean, yes, he’s told me in no uncertain terms that the job is mine. Which is beyond thrilling to think about.

But I still want to walk out of there with jaws on the floor tomorrow. I want whoever else sees this presentation to know without a doubt that I’m the best person for the job. And it’s not that it’s being given to me because my father and Jacob’s dad knew each other.

I sit back, smug as I read the final slide to myself again. The bedroom door opens abruptly, startling me as I look up to see Noel striding inside.

Naked.

I blush, my eyes widening as they drop to his dick. I mean what the fuck, the man isn’t even aroused and he’s already… large.

His eye catches mine, and a smug smirk curls his lips.

“My eyes are up here, Ella. A lady shouldn’t stare.”

I roll my eyes.

“Is there a reason you’re naked?”

He frowns. “Because it’s my home?”

“So, you’d be fine with me waltzing around without a thing on?”

The hard grind of his jaw and the venomous glint in his eyes is exactly the answer I was expecting.

“It would be unfortunate to have to kill Liam and Kevin,” he grunts.

I blush, rolling my eyes again.

“I was in the gym. Everyone is gone for the day,” he grunts as he moves towards me. I flush, biting my lip, and definitely losing the battle of trying to keep my eyes above his waist.

“What are you working on?”

I clear my throat and my dirty mind.

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