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His tongue swooped in and started to mate with hers and her hands went to his waist and held on because there was part of her that felt her legs were going to give out from under her, that he was only holding her up by his hands in her hair.
He turned his head and angled another way and she let him because there was no way she wanted this kiss to end.
By the bulge pressing against her stomach she got the answer she was looking for.
He finally lifted his head and looked down at her. “Well?” he asked. “Not a waste, huh?”
“Absolutely not,” she said, pulling his head down for another kiss.
13
Play Dumb
The following Saturday, Royce found himself walking into Fierce Engineering in his nicest pair of dark jeans, shoes and a button-down shirt. He wasn’t putting a tie on for anything and Chloe informed him he didn’t need to. That the New Year’s Eve party was casual. Though he knew that didn’t mean he could show up in his work boots either.
He’d been invited to this party last year but turned it down. He liked the Fierces and all, but it was a business relationship.
Now with the partnership it was more and his father had told him over a month ago he should attend.
He hadn’t wanted to until things started to form with Chloe.
Though he and Chloe had one hell of a make-out session at his house on Monday, they didn’t go any further. Not that he thought they would, but he would have been game for it.
They hashed out a few more ground rules. One being that they’d remain professional regardless of how long this went on or ended.
He agreed. No reason not to. He liked her as a person and was going to enjoy her more, he knew.
Another rule was they gave the other notice and if one person couldn’t make it last minute, there were no hard feelings. He’d never done this before but knew friends that did.
Hormones could run wild and a need for relief could arise. If this was going to be sex only and they did not want to be seen out together, then there was no reason or need to go on any dates. But last minute booty calls weren’t always going to work for either of them.
Once they got that all out of the way, tonight was going to be the night.
They’d both be here and they’d have to keep their distance from the other too. Then they’d leave separate from each other to not draw attention and go back to his place.
He was surprised he was as nervous as he was over this when he’d never been nervous about having sex with a woman he’d been thinking about this much before.
This should be easy with the way they had it all set up and yet it almost seemed like a lot of work to make sure no one was on to them.
Thankfully, Elise didn’t come tonight. She’d been invited along with their father, but his dad was going to a buddy’s house for poker and Elise had other plans too.
“Royce,” Garrett Fierce said, moving toward him. “So glad you could make it this year. You know a lot of the people here, but please help yourself to anything. I can introduce you around if you’d like?”
“I’m good,” he said. “I know you’ll be greeting a lot of people. I see your son waving to me, so I’ll go talk with him.”
Garrett turned his head. “Yes, I forgot you know Drake well. Not sure if you met his twin, Noah, but I’m sure you will now.”
He nodded and moved to Drake. He hadn’t seen him much lately though Drake was working on this project too. He’d worked with Ryder several times too as an architect when they were doing developments or new builds.
“Glad you could make it,” Drake said, putting his hand out. “Not sure if you’ve met Noah or not.”
“No,” he said, shaking hands with Drake’s twin. He knew Noah was a high school principal.
“Good to meet you too,” Noah said. “We thought we’d pull you away from our father before he started to get to work. Stay clear of him, my uncle, mother, and aunt and you should get out of here unscathed.”
Shit. Guess the whole family was aware of what was going on. “Excuse me?” he said. He was going to play dumb on this if he could. He only knew because of Chloe and was guessing his father was playing into this, but it’d be nice to hear it from the family more directly.
“You know our father and uncle want to set Chloe up. Everyone knows it here. Your name and hers have been in the same sentence more times than we can count.”
