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“These meetings are taking longer than I anticipated. It looks like your father and I may be here for another week.”
“Oh,” I respond, unable to keep the disappointment out of my voice.
“I’m sorry, Em. It can’t be helped. Your father is pretty happy about that fact, only because he doesn’t want to deal with his sister and the others she’s bringing with her. I don’t like leaving you this long, especially knowing what you’ll be facing with them. Let me fly you out here.”
“No, that would be silly. I’ll be fine. I can deal with them for a little while. Besides, this way you might miss me so much you won’t call our next evening together over so quickly.”
He lets out a soft laugh and the sound slides through me. It’s not as free as the last time he laughed for me, but it’s there. “Who knew my innocent, little fiancée was going to be so insatiable?”
“Is that bad?” I murmur, grinning so deeply that my face hurts.
“It’s good, Em. All of you is good.”
“Yousureyou can’t come home and say the heck with the meetings?” I joke.
“You have no idea how much I truly want to, sweetheart. I can’t, though. I don’t think it would be good for us to start off married life by pissing off DeLuca.”
“Probably not.”
“Definitelynot. You’d be looking for a new fiancé and attending my funeral.”
“Don’t joke about that, Niko.”
“Careful,” he warns. “It almost sounds like you’re getting attached to me.”
“I could be,” I tease, knowing I’m way past that.
“Good. I better go. It’s three in the morning here and we’re meeting again at eight.”
“I hate time differences,” I grumble.
“You could agree to come here,” he tries again.
“You just hurry and get your business done over there and come home, deal?”
“I have to say, I’ve never really been in a hurry to get back stateside before. Having you has changed that. I’ll see you soon, Emilia, and I’ll call you tomorrow.”
I smile, thinking I love how he goes back and forth from calling me Em and Emilia. The tone in his voice is different each time.
“I’m going to Zoe’s tonight,” I remind him. “If I call you tomorrow, it will probably be from her house.”
“So, you’re saying I’m not going to get phone sex?” he mutters. His words startle a laugh out of me.
“Very funny,” I cough out, blushing to the tips of my toes.
“I wasn’t joking, honey. If I didn’t have to keep my head in tomorrow’s meeting, I’d have you moaning in my ear right now.”
“I wouldn’t know what to do…” I nibble my bottom lip, waiting to see how he will respond.
“You’d do as I tell you. We’ll play when you get back from Zoe’s,” he promises. His words make me tremble. Flashes of the night on the beach with Niko flash through my mind. They remind me of just how good he is at giving orders. “Em?”
“I’m here,” I whisper, forcing my mind back to this conversation. “I was…thinking.”
“About having my mouth on you?” he literally purrs.
“Niko,” I gasp, getting more turned on by the minute.
“Call me the minute you get home,” he orders, his voice going darker.
