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“Cora.” Her name falling from my lips used to be second nature to me, but it had been years since I’d spoken it out loud and it felt foreign rolling off my tongue.
“Mav?” She asked, her perfect eyebrows knitted in the center as her eyes traveled down my body and back to my eyes.
My God she was beautiful. She was always beautiful, but now, with mature womanly features, she was breathtaking.
Haskins and Chase fell silent, looking between the two of us as we were frozen in some staring contest of disbelief.
“Uh… you two know each other?” Dexter quipped.
Cora folded first, letting her eyes drop from mine as she looked over to Dexter. A blush crawled up her neck and I got vivid flashbacks of the way her chest flushed when she orgasmed. My cock hardened in my pants, growing long and hard in seconds as I still couldn’t take my eyes off of the beautiful woman in front of me. Her body was so different now than it had been all of those years ago.
She had been a three-sport athlete in school and her body had been toned and lean leaving her skinny and knobby as a teenager, but now…
She had filled out in all the ways that made a man’s mouth water. She was curvy and feminine, and she clearly belonged on the big screen with her flawless face.
“Maverick.” Dexter snapped at me, and I finally pulled my eyes from Cora and looked at him. “Did you hear me?”
I looked back over at her and noticed the way that Reid still had his hand on the small of her back as he eyed me. He was a good friend of mine, we went back all the way to Duke, but I would rip his arm out of the socket if he kept touching her.
“Take your hand off of her, right now.” I ordered him. His eyes widened and Cora stepped to the side, forcing his hand to fall from her back as she looked back up at me under her lashes.
“I’m not exactly sure what is going on, but we need to get our heads on straight here Jones, Shen Hu will be here any minute now.” Dexter stepped towards me with his hands up. He could tell I was on edge, but that was only the tip of the iceberg. I was a hair trigger away from exploding in agony from merely being in her presence again.
“Come with me.” I said to Cora, turning and holding my hand out towards my office door and nodded my head for her to come with me.
“What about the meeting?” She asked demurely. God I missed her submissive side. She was only ever submissive to me all those years ago and it always made me fucking psychotically hard, even now.
“The meeting will wait. Come Cora.” I added a bite to the end of the command, and she instinctively stepped back and followed my direction towards my office door in front of me. My eyes instantly dropped to her lush ass in the pretty purple dress she wore as she walked in ahead of me. But I needed to get my head on straight, I couldn’t lust after her, not after what she did to me.
As soon as I shut the door behind us I hit the button on the wall to mirror the walls completely, encapsulating us in privacy.
She looked around my office and a small smile pulled at her lips. “I can’t believe you’ve built such an empire.” She wrapped her arms around herself as she looked around. Being this close to her I caught her scent as I tried to take a calming breath, and memories assaulted my brain. She smelled like she was seventeen again and still madly in love with me. What I wouldn’t give to be back there and do it all over again.
“What are you doing here Cora? They said the translator they found was the new PA for Peterson. What the fuck are you doing as an assistant down at Halo?”
She turned and faced me at my cruel tone, and I watched as her spine stiffened. “I’m sorry if a personal assistant isn’t up to your standards, but I’m doing my best.”
“Why aren’t you doing something more with your degree?” I snapped at her and then took another deep breath trying to settle my normally cool persona.
“My degree?” She asked as she licked her lips and put her hands on her hips.
“You were always the smartest girl in the world Cora, surely you could have aimed higher than a fucking personal assistant. You have the world at your fingertips, and this is where you peaked at?”
Reid opened the door to my office, and I turned and growled at him menacingly for his intrusion. “They’re here Mav, this is too big of a deal to mess it up now.”
“Not now Reid.” I snapped.
“He’s right. Besides, I’m not interested in standing here while you belittle me anymore.” Cora said as she walked towards the door, stopping when she was nose to nose with me and stared up into my eyes. “What I have done or not done with my life is none of your damn business, Mr. Jones.” She said with a sneer and walked away towards Reid and the waiting conference room.
“Fuck!” I growled and then took a deep breath. I needed to handle this deal now and then I could worry about her after.
Over my dead fucking body was she going out with Reid after work tonight.
I walked into the conference room the same time our counterparts did and myself, Reid and Dexter all shook hands with their team.
Shen Hu was a self-made millionaire with a terrible gambling problem that had spent the majority of his life running through prostitutes and as of late, bad business deals. So that brought him to me. He was selling off his namesake to pay his debts and leave himself and his multiple mistresses something to live on for the rest of their lives.
His translator was a female and she sat to his left and looked around the room with jerky glances.
