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“Lance?” I eventually murmur, my eyes tired and heavy.
“Hmm,” he replies.
“Why did you shut down on me yesterday morning?”
I feel his mouth curve against my temple. “Because, like right now, Scarlet,”—he laces our fingers, binding them together—“I know I’m going to have a hard time stopping when it comes to you.”
I twist my neck up and stare into his darkened eyes, with what feels like minutes passing before either one of us makes a move.
Lance lifts a finger and lazily traces my lips, his voice softer than I’ve ever heard it. “I keep asking myself why I’d want to stop at all.”
“I don’t want you to stop,” I whisper, shaking my head. “Don’t stop.”
His stare is unforgiving, heavy, desperate—yet lost. I’d give anything to see inside his head.
“And if I fall in love with you?”
His words should pull me back with a grounding halt, but they don’t have that effect at all. My heart only quickens, pounding. “Then make sure you take me with you.”
Lance
There’s only one reason I’m dead on my feet in the middle of my meeting this morning, and her name is Scarlet Lowell.
After we spent the late afternoon and early evening solely in my bed, she made me promise to show her around the penthouse next time, and we headed back to the estate so she could check on Anthony.
It was an easy promise to make while she was on her knees, worshipping my cock.
A smile slants my mouth. “All right, see what you can figure out based on what you have there. I’ll give Lowell and Montgomery a ring this afternoon and let them know what’s going on.” I nod at Ben and turn back toward the files on my desk.
After seeing Ben last night, I decided to call him in and have him pull together all the information we have so far so that we can figure out what’s going on with the missing money. I’ve worked here for over ten years and haven’t had anything like this happen.
I’m on top of my shit when it comes to any money moving around the accounts.
“Hold off on telling the top dogs, Lance. I’ll figure it out.”
“Those top dogs are my best friends.” I raise a stern brow at Ben, telling him without words what I need to. “What’s going on with you and my sister? I thought the two of you were long done.”
“I saw her out a couple of months back. I thought you knew. She didn’t say anything?”
I give him a second look, this one saying,are you fucking stupid?
“Right.” He goes back to his computer. “She’s a hard one to ignore.”
I know how that feels.
I’m currently driving two hours a day so that I can lose hours of sleep getting my dick wet for a girl.
“She’s a good girl.”
I cringe, realising he’s still talking about my sister.
“What about an ex of Mason or Elliot’s,” he asks, happily moving the conversation back to work.
“Unlikely. None of them would know how to steal from them.”
“They might know someone who does.”
I scrub my hands over my face. Fuck.
