Because of His Past by Kelly Favor

Author:Kelly Favor [Favor, Kelly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-02-08T05:00:00+00:00

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Liam was gone. He’d wanted her to leave with him, but she’d insisted on staying.

Grace spent about forty-five minutes cleaning Easton’s office, making sure that everything was disinfected and hopefully put back almost exactly as it had been prior to their ill-advised romp on his desk.

As she cleaned, she couldn’t stop thinking about the way it had felt to be with Liam. They’d had sex for the very first time, and in this office of all places.

She shook her head, confused.

Grace couldn’t believe that the chemistry between two people could be so powerful, so addictive, so…beautiful.

That word wasn’t an exaggeration. It was beautiful, she thought, as she put the finishing touches on Easton’s once-again gleaming mahogany desk and stepped back to admire her work.

She smiled, remembering Liam’s final kiss before she’d shooed him out of the office suite. His lips had been just as red, just as fiery, and his cool blue eyes had somehow thrilled and warmed her soul as he’d given her his trademark grin.

“I want to see you again,” he’d said, on his way out the door.

“Let’s not talk about that right now,” she’d told him, pretending to be stern when in actuality she couldn’t have agreed more.

“I want to see you tonight. Come to The Willis near Central Park,” he’d replied, not at all put off. “I’m going to make sure the penthouse is available for us.”

“What’s The Willis?”

“It’s a five-star hotel that my family owns.”

“You say that like it’s nothing,” Grace had marveled.

“It’s not nothing. It’s where I’m going to see you again. That makes it special to me.”

Just remembering what he’d said was enough to make her gin ear-to-ear once more.

Grace took her cleaning supplies and left Easton’s office, shutting the door and returning the spray bottle and sponges to their rightful place beneath the sink in the kitchenette.

She stood up, wiping her forehead with the back of her hand. Her pulse was finally slowing, after hours of operating at a breakneck pace.

I’m exhausted, she thought.

Too exhausted to go to The Willis like Liam requested?

No. She’d never be too exhausted to see Liam—not on her worst day.

Every single time she thought his name or pictured his face, it got her smiling like a teenager mooning over her first real crush. And that made her wonder if that’s all this was—an infatuation, an immature obsession that would end tragically.

As if on cue, her cell phone began ringing and she went to her desk and found it, nested in her purse. Scott was calling.

She debated answering, but decided it might be important. “Hey,” she said.

“Were you just running sprints?” he asked. “Because you sound out of breath.”

“No, just doing some cleaning.”

“Cleaning what?” His voice was suspicious.

“Why do you care what I’m cleaning? Is there a reason for this call, or are you just trying to poke at me?”

“Of course there’s a reason, Grace. I have better things to do with my time than think up random reasons to call you.”

Are you sure about that? She wanted to ask, but thought better of it.

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