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Me: Lol, that would have been better.
Ethan: Bullshit. I’m sure you looked gorgeous. Del and Alex back Monday, right?
Me: Yep…
Ethan: I’ll make sure we get Saturday and Sunday all to ourselves.
Me: Don’t worry about sending dinner. I’m going to go to my parents’ house. I haven’t been able to talk to them yet.
Ethan: Sounds good. Text me when you’re on your way home.
Ethan: My house, soon to be our house. ??
Me: Love you. I’ll be back by 9.
Ethan: Love you.
The second I’m about to set my phone down, it chimes out. I swear this is going to be a full-time job all on its own.
And when I swipe open the message, I see it’s from the reporter I did the interview with. It’s a screenshot of a computer screen with the article layout and the heading on the article reads: “Local heiress Zoey Holden Makes Name for Herself at Badger Creek”. There’s a couple more screenshots of tweets announcing the expansion and my role in it all too.
Chapter27
Ethan
I’m scrambling to get the last of this shit done so I can go home to Zoey. I cannot believe I scheduled all of this to happen on the Friday of the weekend that Alex and Delaney are away. A weekend Zoey and I were supposed to have to ourselves. Still, after this one, we’re going to have every weekend, hell every single day, to ourselves because nothing about us will be a secret anymore.
And I can’t fucking wait.
Even though I’m not normally one for publicity or talking about my personal life, there is something incredibly appealing about the world knowing this woman is mine. Even if no one knows the exact hows and whys or when it all happened, there is just something about being able to walk into her office and kiss her in the middle of the day just because I feel like it.
I love that. And while I won’t ever discuss us or how we came to be together, I’m not going to hide the fact that we are together any longer.
“Hey you.”
I look up to find Zoey standing in my doorway, a smile on her face as she watches me. “Hey, what are you doing here?” I ask, figuring she would have gone straight home to my place after seeing her parents.
She wanders in, closing the door behind her. “Just left Mom and Dad’s and was about to head to your place but thought I’d swing by in case you were still here,” she says, walking across the large office until she’s standing on the other side of my desk.
“Oh, why’s that?” I ask with a grin. “Worried I’d spend all night here?”
She laughs, dropping her purse in one of the chairs across from me, before trailing her fingertips along the polished wood as she walks slowly around to where I sit. When she reaches me, she puts her stilettoed shoe on the wheeled legs of my chair, pushing it back a little so she can sit on my lap. “No,” she says, her arms wrapping around my neck as she brushes a light kiss against my lips.
My hands move to her ass and thigh, holding her against me as I lean closer, chasing her mouth for another kiss. “So, to what do I owe this visit? Not that I’m complaining,” I add, giving her a wink.
Zoey’s hands move to my tie, smoothing the silk down my chest as she watches me, a sexy little smile on her mouth. “Well, I was thinking,” she says, drawing her words out.
“Yes.”
“After this, soon, everyone’s going to know about us,” she continues, a playful smile on her face.
“Uh huh,” I murmur, leaning in to nuzzle her neck.
“So none of this will be a secret anymore,” she continues.
“Nope,” I whisper, kissing her jaw. “But that’s what we want right?”
“It is,” she says, her fingers now loosening my tie until it hangs undone around my neck, followed by the top buttons of my shirt.
