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Immediately, his gaze dipped to the sliver of skin that appeared when I turned my body.
He eyed me up and down, his wintergreen gaze scanning me very slowly as he sat down in his desk chair, stroking his chin, watching me.While I was the one who had walked in here to bargain, he looked every bit the predator who was waiting for lunch.
Come clean.Tell him a little about Bronson.
"Okay, you're right.I need help and support.I know that you want the software.And obviously, it's yours, as am I.But I need to pay my employees.I need money to do that.We have client deliverables to finish."
"I see that.And what, you're here to negotiate that?"
"Yes.I propose that maybe our arrangement not only be for public consumption.The way you watch me sometimes, I think you want me.And you're obviously not hard on the eyes.Maybe this should be less an on-paper thing and a more real thing?"
He lifted a brow."So, you walked here to negotiate with your tits and ass?"
"I'm just saying, we could—" I expelled a long breath and tried again."Look, I'm not good at this, so let me just put it all on the line.I think you want me.And I would be lying if I said I didn't feel some kind of spark with us at the gala and when you’ve kissed me.It's just gotten all convoluted.And then you were throwing prenups at me and telling me I’d be in your bed.Anyway, if it means that my team gets what they need and that maybe things are less contentious between us and you will help me, then maybe I’m proposing a real marriage."
He watched me with narrowed eyes, his gaze hooded."Do you have any idea why I kissed you the other day?"
"At the restaurant or the penthouse?"
'Well both, but mostly at the penthouse."
"No."
"I was jealous."
I frowned at that."Of what?"
"Let's see, you left my bed at five thirty in the morning, not to go for a workout or anything, not because you're hungry, but to meet Lakewood."
Was he serious?"So?Lance had been my best friend and my right hand for years."
"Exactly.I don't like it because I want you to be mine.Only mine."
I swallowed hard.What was I supposed to say?
"And you were wearing that fucking pink silk blouse.It pebbled your nipples, and all I wanted to do was get my hands on them."
My mouth just formed a smallOas I stared at him.
"I was irritated because Lakewood noticed as well.And I'm sure you walked with him all the way to work with your ass swishing back and forth in that skirt."
I swallowed hard.
He pushed to his feet, bracketing me on the edge of his desk, his breath warm on my neck, and I flushed deep.
"Take me at my word, Gwen.I've already taken care of the payroll problem.I handled it yesterday after we talked.You don't need to offer yourself up for sacrifice.You've done enough of that."
"But I—" I licked my lips and tried again."I don't understand."
"When you come to me, I want it to be because you are so desperate you can't be anywhere but in my arms.I want to know that you're pressing your thighs together to try and calm that ache you have for me.And it doesn't matter, but I could swear that I know exactly how your ass feels in my hands while you’re riding me.That's how vivid my fucking dreams of you are.But I want you because youwantto be here.Not because you're trying to bargain or because your father is a prick who has given you to me.So, Ness, you're going to come to me because you want to.And I was serious when I said that youwillbe a Price.Which means you’ll have everything you need."
“I—thank you.But I don’t like uneven scales.”
He pursed his lips, but his eyes stayed soft.“We’re not keeping track, Ness.”
"Why are you calling me Ness?My name is Gwen."
He chuckled softly, his breath against my neck."You'll figure it out."
