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I sat up straighter and leaned over my desk. “Have we heard back from the McIntyres?”
Harvey glanced up and frowned. “No, sir. I’ve left several messages with Howard McIntyre’s assistant.”
“Leave more,” I instructed, after a brief pause. “Make sure they know it’s urgent.”
It had only been two days since Meghan’s departure, and I was already worried . Although I tried to push away all thoughts of her, I couldn’t stop imagining her out there with a target on her back, and I couldn’t shake off the guilt that settled in the pit of my stomach.
Or the feeling that I shouldn’t have let Serena bully me into sending Meghan away.
Granted, it made things easier for everyone with Meghan gone, and things were a lot less complicated, but I missed her. I missed the furrow between her brows when she disagreed with someone, and I missed the way she chewed on her bottom lip when she was focused.
And I didn’t want to.
I didn’t want to miss any part of her, much less the things that annoyed me.
Distance was exactly what the two of us needed, and it gave me the chance I wanted to get my head on straight. In time, I hoped that our night in the elevator would fade to the back of my mind altogether. Unfortunately, until that time came, I kept reliving our night together and imagining what it would be like to be with her again.
The thought kept me up at night so I was tossing and turning and thinking of her.
And it stayed on my mind throughout the day when I was meant to be focusing on business.
Harvey looked back up at me, a solemn expression on his face. “Right away, Mr. Holt.”
Knowing that Meghan was thousands of miles away, in another state was hard, but it was harder knowing that I had eventually given in against my gut and allowed her to go. Over the past few days, I had tried to ignore the bad feeling in the center of my stomach and chalked it up to guilt.
I had, after all, slept with my sister’s best friends and hadn’t made amends.
While Serena hadn’t brought it up again, I could see it in her eyes whenever she looked at me, and I knew it was only a matter of time before it came up again. Intentional or otherwise, I was going to have to find a way to make it up to my sister and prove to her that I was honoring her wishes.
For good this time.
“I’ll have my usual lunch today, Harvey,” I added, after a long pause. I reached for the stack of papers on my desk and organized them. “And make sure that we receive blueprints for that new project. They should’ve been on my desk yesterday.”
“I’ll get in touch and see what the delay is, sir.”
“Good, thank you.”
Harvey nodded, straightened his back and left the office. Once the door clicked shut behind him, I stood up, unfastened one of my buttons and twisted around. My office offered a view of the New York city skyline and hundreds of buildings gleaming underneath the morning sun, set against a backdrop of clear, blue skies.
But I couldn’t appreciate it.
All I could see was Meghan, and the look on her face when I dropped her off at the airport. Over the past two days, I had done everything I could to forget her, in an attempt to respect Serena’s wishes, but the harder I tried, the less successful I was. She was the first thing on my mind when I woke up in the morning, and the last thing I thought of before I went to sleep.
Meghan also filled every thought in between.
And I hated it.
You’re not some lovesick teenager, Holt.
Sleeping with Meghan once was something I could write off as a mistake, especially when I knew everyone was eager to put it behind them. Serena wasn’t a vindictive person, and I knew she could put it behind her in time.
Making the same mistake twice on the other hand wasn’t an option.
Neither was pining after her like some idiot.
You should still keep an eye out though. Meghan has no idea what she’s dealing with when it comes to McIntyre.
And regardless of my promise to Serena, I wasn’t going to allow McIntyre to hurt Meghan.
