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“I can’t believe you bought me all of these flowers.” I look around my office. “How will I get them back to the apartment?” I’m not ready to move back to our house.
“I’ll have someone pick them up to take you and them home.” Interesting that both of us have always thought of the apartment as home. It is much cozier and homelier than the big house ever felt. He adds, “I would come and do that myself, but I have the press release to sign off by the end of the day about my leave of absence. That’s why I couldn’t make lunch, Lily. They wanted me to meet the marketing team to discuss it over lunch. I asked for some revisions. It’ll be done by six o’clock.”
I can imagine what the fallout will be from the fans. They won’t like it because they adore Ash. “When will it be published?” I ask, feeling concerned for him and his team.
“Sunday. We have a game on Saturday, and I don’t want my announcement to cast a shadow or be the focus of it.”
“The fans will want answers.” Knowing Ash, his statement will be brief and to the point.
“They aren’t getting any. It’s vague, stating that I am taking time off for personal reasons. That’s it.”
I smile, knowing him so well.
He continues, “My main job, as your husband, is to look after you. And us. I refuse to let this job come between us anymore.”
He couldn’t be any more delicious if he tried. “You’re kinda hot when you’re this protective.”
“Oh, yeah?”
“Yeah.” My reflection in the window captures how wide I am smiling. “I liked this morning. The way you kissed me was so sexy.”
“You made me hard.”
“I know.” I felt it. “You made my stomach flutter.”
“Mine too.”
“Do men get that?” I ask, genuinely wanting to know.
“No, I just said that to sound super romantic. It was actually my dick tingling.”
Pressing a hand to my mouth, I half laugh and snort.
He then redeems himself by saying, “I love the way you taste, the way you smell, the way you feel. I love everything about you, Lily. I always have.”
“I may have just let you off the hook for your no-show at lunchtime after saying those lovely things about me.”
“How about I make it up to you and I take you out for dinner tonight? Caspers?” He suggests, knowing how much I love that place.
“I have plans for dinner.”
“With who?” he asks, sounding sharp.
“Dominic Holmes.”
“Dom? What the fuck are you—” he barks.
“Are you jealous?” I consider teasing him a little longer before setting the record straight, but I struggle to contain my laughter.
“You made that sound like a date. You’re screwing with me?”
“I am,” I admit. “It’s business. Come with me. It would be good for you to hear what he has to say.” That man gives me the creeps. “He sent over a proposal to buy shares in Tiger Lily Event that suck, big time, and I asked him to make me a better offer.”
I hope he turns up tonight with a more acceptable one and one that works in my favor and not his.
Although if he doesn’t, I’m also okay with that. Part of me doesn’t want to give it all up. I do love my job. If only there was a better solution, where I can still have my cake and eat it.
“Are you for real? I didn’t think you were serious when you said you were thinking of selling the business.” Ash sounds shocked at my news. “This is not something I think you should do, Lily. I will be there.” I know he will. There is not a chance in hell he will let me go for dinner alone with Dominic. “He might very well be Canada’s top entrepreneur, Lily, but that man is Lothario in the flesh.”
