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“I don’t want to leave you. I may not work for you much longer, but if I can help it, I won’t leave you.”
He reached out and touched a strand of her hair, needing to know if it was as soft as it looked. It was. He twirled it around his finger.
Then the next thing he knew, her lips were brushing his. It was a feather-soft kiss. One that could’ve stopped there, if she’d wanted it to, if she’d turned around and let herself into her room.
But she didn’t.
He rested his forehead on hers. Her lips were a fraction of an inch from his. “Felicity, I don’t want you to regret this. I don’t want you to think I took advantage of you—”
“I know exactly what I’m doing, exactly what we’re about to do. I’ve wanted this for so long. I think you want me, too, Austin. Don’t you?”
If you only knew.
She leaned in and those lips were teasing his neck, her hot, delicious breath was in his ear.
“Austin, I don’t mind if you kiss me. I want you to kiss me and we don’t have to stop there.”
Every inch of his body responded as his arms fell around her waist and he pulled her into his body. She slid her hands down to his butt, closing the distance so that his body was perfectly aligned with hers.
He didn’t give her the chance to say anything else. Their lips found each other, and he showed her exactly how much he wanted her. As her mouth opened under his, passion consumed him. That moment, if he’d had the key to her room, he would’ve opened the door and walked her backward right into the bedroom and made love to her. Instead, he deepened the kiss and pulled her even tighter against him.
He wasn’t sure how long they stayed like that, but when they came up for air, Felicity looked dazed. Her hand flew up to her kiss-swollen lips.
That’s when Austin realized someone was walking toward them. He turned and saw his father letting himself into one of the hotel rooms four doors down.
Felicity flinched away.
“Austin. Felicity.”
“Dad.”
Miles pinned them with a steely glare. His mouth was drawn into a tight, thin line. “It was a nice party. Let’s...uh...talk about everything first thing Monday morning. My office.”
* * *
The moment Felicity disappeared inside her hotel room, Austin’s cell phone rang. He muted the volume, so it wouldn’t disturb the other guests as he made his way down the hallway to his own room.
He let himself inside his room and answered. “Hello.”
“You are damn lucky you took my call.” Miles sounded as if he was spitting fire. Austin almost hung up on him.
“Yeah? And what if I hadn’t? What would you have done?”
Miles didn’t answer his question. Instead, he jumped right into the tirade that Austin knew was coming.
“What the hell is wrong with you, Austin? Fooling around with your personal assistant? Are you trying to get Fortune Investments slapped with a sexual harassment lawsuit? How stupid can you be?”
“It’s not like that, Dad.” Austin flung his tux jacket onto a chair and toed out of his patent leather loafers.
“Yeah, well, I have eyes. I know what I saw. I know exactly what was going on. So does everyone else who saw you dancing with her at the gala tonight. You just provided all the corroborating witnesses she will need when she gets pissed off at you and decides to sue our asses.”
“All we did was dance.” It was taking every ounce of strength Austin possessed to keep his voice low and level. The soft champagne buzz had evaporated. In its place, the start of a headache was beginning to pound. Austin scrubbed his free hand over his eyes and then raked his fingers through his hair.
“It didn’t look like you were dancing in the hallway. Or maybe you were saving the dance for after you got inside the room.”
“Go to hell, Miles. What we were doing is none of your business. I’m not sixteen years old. What makes you think you have the right to tell me how to live my life?”
“I don’t care how old you are. When you work for me, I have the final say on things that will affect my business. Your fooling around with your assistant could come back to bite me in the ass.”
“She’s not going to be my assistant for much longer. I have feelings for her. Besides, I know Felicity. I’ve known her for almost five years. She’s not like that. She wouldn’t turn around and try to take us for a ride.”
