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Or maybe Trish was the only one spending lonely nights with her favorite buzzy toy and thinking about the one guy she couldn’t have. She had no idea how Cameron spent his time outside of the office. It wasn’t her business. Yes, they’d had sex, but that didn’t mean...
Fuck it.
She set her bottle of water down. “I’d like that. On one condition.”
The light tensing of his shoulders was the only indication of his mood. “I’m listening.”
“This might be off the books, but until it runs its course, I would like it to be exclusive.”
“Done.”
She frowned. “You agreed to that awfully easy.”
“You brought it up before I had a chance to.” He held out a hand, and she dazedly rounded the table to take it. Cameron tugged her forward to straddle him and ran his hands up the backs of her thighs. “I’m a selfish bastard, Trish. I don’t share what’s mine, even if it’s only mine in part.”
“That’s very archaic of you.” She shivered as his knuckles brushed the curve of her ass. “I’m a person, not a possession.”
“Agreed,” he said easily. Cameron skated his hands to her hips, taking her shirt with him and baring her from the waist down. His thumb brushed her hip bones. “But that doesn’t change the fact that you bring out strong...impulses...in me. You make me crazy.” His hands reached her breasts and he leaned down to press a kiss to her stomach. “All I can think about is you, when I should be thinking about work. I’ve never had a problem with distractions before. I don’t know how to deal with it.”
“Now I’m a problem and a distraction.” She lifted her arms over her head and let him drag her shirt off, leaving her naked. “You sweet talker, you.”
“If I was better with words, we wouldn’t be in this position to begin with.”
Trish made a show of looking at where his hands were. “I think I like this position.”
That earned her a brief smile. “I’m never going to say the right thing.”
“This isn’t about saying anything at all.” She leaned down and kissed his shoulder as she unbuttoned his pants. A crinkle had her laughing against his skin. “Is that a condom in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?”
“It would be a shame to put that truly ambitious box to waste, don’t you think?”
She sent out a silent thank-you to Becka for giving her the idea in the first place, though Trish would never say as much aloud. She stroked his cock. “I couldn’t agree more.”
CHAPTER TEN
CAMERON WOULD HAVE spent the entirety of their trip to London without leaving the suite, but the next day dawned with a full schedule. He went over it with Trish while they ate breakfast. “Nikki Lancaster makes me look like I should be winning Miss Congeniality contests.”
“You mentioned that. Twice.” Trish studied him over the rim of her coffee. “Why are you so nervous?”
“I’m not nervous.” Nervous was a strange, prickly sensation, and Cameron had stinging bees swarming in his stomach.
“You’re the very definition of nervous. If you think I’m not capable—”
“It’s not that.” He couldn’t just leave it at that, no matter how little he wanted to deal with this entire thing. Damn you, Aaron. “Nikki and I...had a short fling a couple years ago. It went sideways pretty fast, and while it shouldn’t matter in the grand scheme of things, I can’t guarantee that it won’t affect how she treats this meeting.”
Trish sighed. “That would have been good information to have before we started this whole process. I suppose you said something that pissed her off and she dumped you?”
He couldn’t even bristle because it was exactly what had happened, but the exasperation in Trish’s tone said she wasn’t surprised in the least by this turn of events. “We never got far enough for someone to be dumped. There was a first date and the next morning, one minute we were having a conversation that skirted into work, and the next she was kicking me out in only my underwear.”
“Mmm-hmm.” She was all false sympathy and smiles. “You didn’t happen to tell her that her company’s cybersecurity is inferior or something along those lines?”
That was exactly what he’d told her. Cameron poked at his food. “She asked a question and I gave an answer.”
“Oh, you poor thing.” Trish’s laughter pealed through the room. “You wouldn’t know tact if it clobbered you over the head in a dark alley. How long ago was this?”
“A couple years. Three...no, four? I think four.” Shit, he couldn’t remember. It had been just another failed dating experience and he’d moved on with his life, assuming that Nikki would do the same. He still wasn’t sure that she hadn’t moved on with her life.
Trish gave him wide eyes. “You don’t even know. God, what was Aaron thinking, sending you over here? I’m assuming he knows.”
