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He had been amazing, and after they had both got past the awkward revelation that her stepfather and his mother had known each other a long time ago, their life had settled into a regular routine.
“Answer when you’re ready,” Blake said as they sat lying in bed, reading.
It was Sunday morning. He’d been out to get them coffee and bagels after waking her with his mouth, and damn, he knew how to use it.
“Yes, I know I’m running out of time and that I need to face him.” She sighed, lowering her Kindle. “Fine. I will go to NYC.”
Her lawyers had guided her on the next steps and said they would join her, but she was still incredibly nervous.
Bella chewed her lip, then asked the question that had been on her mind for days. “Will you come with me?”
“Of course I fucking will. I’m not letting you go alone,” Blake said, dropping his phone and turned his sexy broad chest in her direction. He took her Kindle out of her hands and tugged her into his arms. “This is a partnership, remember. And I don’t trust that asshole one little bit.”
Bella suspected she had heart eyes emoji in place of her green ones right in that moment.
He was perfect.
She blinked away the emotion and planted a kiss on his lips.
“You are the best partner ever. I chose well,” Bella said, aiming for a light and cheerful response to hide the fact she was falling in love with him more every day.
“You have good taste.” Blake grinned. “Which makes sense because you also taste divine.”
“You had to go there.”
“Every time, baby, every time,” he said, pulling them down as he slapped her butt playfully. “Now, how about we try that third plug and this time you stop removing the damn thing.”
“How about we get a kitten?”
He growled as he kissed her, and she giggled.
A few days later, they were on the Dufort jet winging their way to Manhattan.
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BLAKE GLANCED OVERat Bella for the tenth time. She looked pale. He wasn’t surprised. She was about to meet her birth father for the first time.
Unlike most people in this situation, she was also stepping into the company he was running as the new majority shareholder.
Or she would be in just over ten days when they were married.
Over the past few months, Bella had learned a lot.
Not enough, but enough that she had some bold plans. One of them was to oust her father from the role of CEO.
She believed it was possible.
Blake had to be careful what he said because, of course, he was a major supporter of that happening.
But legally he couldn’t sway her.
To be fair, aside from reading books on hostile takeovers, he had also found her watching Mad Men and Wall Street. He wasn’t sure her research was all that thorough or...based on facts.
If it wasn’t so damn serious and potentially dangerous, he’d find it cute.
Bella wasn’t cute.
She was goddamn sexy.
