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I close the distance between our mouths to run the tip of my tongue along the seam of her lips, and she opens instantly, inviting me inside. Our tongues spar and dance for long minutes as she squirms against the palm between her legs until I break the kiss, take my hands off her, and step off the elevator.
I swiftly adjust my dick with a raised brow. “There’s nothingsoftabout me, Wren. And I’ll prove it. Later.”
Her groan of frustration makes me chuckle all the way to my office, and when I hear her studio door slam moments later, I can’t stop the belly laugh that reverberates through my office.
I’ve created a sex fiend.
And I’m not one bit sorry.
* * *
“Wake up, V.”
Ford’s demand makes me jump to awareness as I sit forward in my desk chair, taking a hot minute to remember where I am and what I’msupposedto be doing.
“I was just resting my eyes.”
Ford simply shakes his head before taking a seat opposite me. “You’ll be pleased to know that I have the issue with security dealt with.”
I perk up, rising to fix us a tumbler of Macallan each. Ford takes a sip of his and then places it on the desk between us as I return to my seat.
“How did you manage that?” I swirl my untouched Macallan with a frown. “Good security is hard to come by. You know that more than most.”
Ford bristles at my insinuation. His father, head of the now defunct private security network Holloway Security Detail, is serving life behind bars for his part in covering the ass of his bankroller. Including covering up a murder.
Not to mention, invading the privacy of his high-profile clients in order to blackmail them, using their deepest, darkest secrets.
The whole thing was as shady as fuck, and despite knowing that Ford has left that part of his life firmly in his rearview mirror, I also know how much it still stings to have discovered that his father—his idol—was capable of such terrible things.
“You know what I mean, Holloway. Cut to the chase.”
“I’ve hired the ex-military from Haven.”
My jaw unhinges as he plows ahead. “Once I told them whoVinnytruly is, they were more than happy to help. In fact, some of them wanted to volunteer for free…”
He trails off with a low chuckle before shrugging. “Who better to secure your club than the men whose lives you’ve helped to give new meaning? Men you already trust. Men who trustyou. Their loyalty will be unparalleled.”
I take a moment to digest the news, relief filling my chest, followed rapidly by reality, and I lean forward with a carefully neutral expression on my face.
“What does this mean for you?”
Ford has stayed with me out of some crazy sense of loyalty for far longer than he’d anticipated. When he first moved to New York, I was the only person he knew. I needed heavier security, and he had a background that was going to waste.
When he’d stepped into his role here, it became a safety net. It’s past time for him to step outside his comfort zone.
He shrugs with a small smile. “I’m more than ready to begin booking private details. My team, as you know, is in place—though obviously unneeded sinceRavishhas been shut down—so I think it’s now a matter of taking a leap of faith.”
“You’re plenty ready, Holloway. Mark my words, you’ll be the cream of the crop for private security in no time.”
I smirk as he shakes his head with his signature humility.
Then he glances around my office before huffing a laugh. “Who would have thought the sheltered cowboy from Texas would find a home in a sex club in Manhattan?”
We share a smile as a bittersweet blend of sadness and joy flows through me, and I realize, with a shock, that somehow, somewhere along the way, Ford has earned the title offriend.
“You always have a home here.” I stand, holding out my hand to the man before me. He clasps it with his own as he rises, facing me as I squeeze his fingers pointedly.
“You know you’re not going anywhere until you’ve trained your replacement, right?”
