A Negotiated Marriage by Noelle Adams

Author:Noelle Adams [Adams, Noelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Adult, Romance, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781481922722
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2013-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Seven

“Hey, George,” Molly said, sticking her head out of her office.

George didn’t even glance up from the three computer screens he was scanning while he typed so fast his fingers almost blurred. “Yup.”

She stepped into the reception area of her stylish downtown office, where her staff both had desks, and laid a file in George’s inbox. “I need in-depth financial information for all of the Genetica employees listed there—bank transactions, savings accounts, large purchases, you know the drill. One of them is dirty and hiding it very well.”

“Okay.”

“But I don’t need it done tonight. Why don’t you head home? It’s almost eight.”

“You’re still here,” George said blandly, still not looking up or pausing from his typing. Screens were moving so fast across his monitors she couldn’t begin to keep up.

Used to having conversations with the side of his head, she asked, “Doesn’t Will want you home?”

“Will is fine,” George replied, referring to his long-time boyfriend. “How is Mr. Lyons?”

George wasn’t by nature a formal person, but he always referred to Luke as “Mr. Lyons.” Molly wasn’t exactly sure why, but she’d always found it kind of sweet—like he was going out of his way to be respectful to her husband.

George, of course, had no idea about the true nature of her relationship with Luke. He assumed, like the rest of the world, that the Lyonses were happily married. Molly just said Luke was fine and returned to her office.

She had no desire to be working so late on a Friday evening, but there wasn’t any reason for her to go home. She liked to tie up as many loose ends from her current jobs before the weekend anyway.

As she sat back down at her desk, though, her shoulders slumped and she dropped her head in her hands. She was tired. She’d been working since seven that morning.

And the truth was she felt decidedly blah.

Luke had worked late every evening this week and last week, and most mornings he’d been gone before she got up. In the three years they’d been married, he’d kept this sort of schedule before. When he’d been really buried at work, sometimes they’d gone weeks without really seeing each other.

But it felt strange to Molly that, as soon as they returned from New York, he’d disappear into his work. It felt like he was retreating from her, but she didn’t understand why.

They hadn’t had sex since that evening in New York when they’d had sex twice.

She’d felt uncomfortable and anxious afterwards herself and—had Luke made definite advances on her immediately following the trip—she might have been a little skittish.

To have him pull back completely really upset her, though. And confused her. And scared her more than that evening in New York had scared her.

She didn’t think she’d come across as too clingy with Luke or given him any reason to think she’d developed sappy feelings about their relationship. If she’d done something like that, she would have totally understood why he might back off. She’d felt a little strange, but she didn’t think she’d acted strange.

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