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But I understood there were levels of authority, and that affected her job and, quite possibly, her performance.
I could handle slow only because that would eventually lead to Drake Madden becoming all mine.
“I don’t want to say anything to the guys,” I told her. “For now, this will be our secret. When we have a better understanding of what we are and how this is going to look at the office, then I’ll talk to them about it.”
“You have no idea how much I appreciate that.”
Now that the hard shit was out of the way, I rested my hand on the back of her desk. “I want to see you tonight.”
“Is that taking things slow?”
“If I was moving fast, I would have asked you out for lunch.”
She laughed and glanced down at her phone as it dinged on top of her desk, and when she read the message that filled her screen, her expression instantly changed.
“Is everything all right?” I asked.
She sighed. “Yeah, it’s just a colleague from Faceframe. An issue came up and they need my help. I’ll deal with it later.” She slipped her phone away and slowly looked at me. “Sorry I got distracted—what were you saying? Something about tonight?”
“Do they reach out to you a lot?”
She shrugged. “Enough.”
I sensed the topic added stress she didn’t need, so I leaned closer to her desk, skimming my bottom lip as I imagined all the things I would do to her when she came by my place tonight. “Back to tonight, I’ll cook and we’ll eat naked.”
“Naked?” Her brows rose. “What if I spill something? That’ll really burn—”
“Oh good, you’re both in here,” Holden said from behind me.
I quickly turned around and pushed my back against the chair as I watched him walk into Drake’s office.
“Now I can tell you guys at the same time.” He took a seat next to me.
“Tell us what?” I asked.
He handed me a tablet, and I briefly read the information at the top of the screen. “There’s a conference in Berlin in three weeks. I want Hooked to be there.”
“I know of the conference,” Drake replied. “I attended every year while I was at Faceframe.”
“Excellent, then as long as you don’t have anything on your calendar that you can’t reschedule, I’d like you to go,” Holden said to her. His forehead scrunched as he stared at her. “Is that Easton’s shirt you have on?”
Fuck me.
“Yes,” I quickly chimed in. “She spilled coffee on her dress this morning, so I gave her my shirt to cover up the stain.”
Drake had been extremely self-conscious when I’d lent her the button-down that she wore over the top of last night’s dress. It was a look that drove me wild, especially because I knew she’d be smelling me all day, that my fabric would be wrapped around that delicious body. Because I hadn’t let her out of the shower, devouring her not once but twice while we were in there, and she had an early meeting, she hadn’t had time to go back to her apartment to change. Even thoughthis combo was overdressed for our environment, I assured her no one would notice.
Of course, the hopeless romantic who dressed an extremely picky and overly opinionated little girl every morning had picked up on it.
“What a good man,” Holden said, clasping my shoulder before he took back the tablet. “Anyway, I hadn’t planned on us going, not while Marvin was in Drake’s role. Now that I have confidence we’re getting much closer to an international rollout, I think it’s vital that we’re there.”
“Me too,” she added. “And I’m excited to attend.”
“I want Easton to go with you,” he said.
Nothing made me happier than the thought of having Drake all to myself during an international flight on our private plane and three-plus days in Europe.
“Sounds good to me,” I told him.
