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“Alright, then I’ll find a temporary solution for Thursday.” We spoke for a few more moments, and then I showed Tonya out of the conference room. Jake was standing outside the door, glowering at me.
After Tonya said goodbye, I turned to Jake. “What the fuck are you doing on company time?”
“Locking down my nanny so I can be on company time, you ass.”
He nodded. “She’s pretty hot; you gonna tap that?”
“Oh, fuck no. She’s like twenty-three, and she will be working for me, not warming my bed.”
He shrugged. “Sounds like it could be a win-win situation to me. She is of legal age. I always heard that nannies could be rather wild with their bosses.”
Alice made a gagging noise in her throat, and I laughed.
“No, thanks. I’d rather Tonya focus her attentions on Devon than me. The last thing I need is more problems.”
“Yeah, how is good old Davina? She really did look fine at the wedding.”
“I have no clue. I haven’t spoken to Davina since Saturday night.” The two of us began to walk back toward his office.
“You banged her and then walked away?” he said, surprised. “I thought you’d at least keep her around for a little while. I know your style isn’t to keep them long, but damn, she looked like she’d be good for a couple of weeks at least.”
His comment pissed me off, but just about everything pissed me off these days. “Actually, Davina kicked me out.”
Jake threw his head back and laughed. “Now, I bet that was a first for the almighty Thumper.”
I laughed when I heard my nickname. It wasn’t one that I wanted, but I’d knocked some guy out with one single well-aimed thump overseas about eighteen years ago, and it had stuck. “Not sure it was a first, but well, let’s just say, I’m letting the dust settle a little bit before I try to fix things.”
“Shit, is that even worth it?” He went around his desk, and then quickly lifted his face. “Don’t you go falling in love and asking to be taken off overseas duty. I can’t afford to lose another operative.”
“Nah, don’t worry about that. I have no intention of stopping what I do, whether there is a woman in my life or not.”
“Good to know. Now get the fuck back to work.” He grinned when he said it, and I gave him a half-assed salute before I returned to my desk.
As I sat down, I stared at a picture of Devon that I’d put in a frame. Well, at least I had a nanny; now what was I going to do with him on Thursday afternoon when Lucy couldn’t watch him?
My gaze slipped over my workspace, landing on the laptop and the lightning bolt screensaver that was currently on my screen. I couldn’t fucking get away from the damn things.
Chapter Twenty-Six
Davina
Ithrew myself into work with more enthusiasm than I felt. However, it was the only time that I could get thoughts of Trevor out of my head. Anytime I wasn’t working, I was kicking myself in the ass for what I had done.
Not just with sleeping with him, but what I had done after. Making love to him had been the singularly most impactful moment of my life, and yet I hadn’t just pushed him away, but I had shoved him so hard and fast that I had no hopes of ever getting him back.
The fact that he had not even sent me one text message since that night confirmed that. I had no one to blame but myself.
At night, when I lay down, I dwelled over what he had said.“You are so much more than a weekend of romance, Davina. You’re a lifetime.”Had I been wrong, had he been telling me that he cared about me, more than he had anyone else? At the time, I thought he meant that he had only wanted that one time together to last a lifetime. As the words echoed through my mind each night, I began to think I’d been wrong.
Yet, if I were wrong, wouldn’t he have reached out to me? Wouldn’t he want to reconcile and try to explain to me what he had meant?
I was flustered as I arrived home from a trip to the office and was halfway up the stairs when Trevor appeared at the top, Devon’s carrier in his hands. He paused, staring down at me in surprise, and I drank him in. God, I missed him. How could I miss him so much?
“Davina,” he murmured as I forced my legs to work again and took the last few steps to the landing.
“Hello, Trevor.” I pulled my gaze away from him to peek into the seat. Devon was awake and met my gaze, a smile coming to his mouth. “Oh, my god, he’s smiling.”
He laughed slightly. “Yeah, he started doing that the other day.”
