HOT MEN: A Contemporary Romance Box Set by Ashlee Price

Author:Ashlee Price [Price, Ashlee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-05-02T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 6

I woke up in bed with Langdon. His fingers were gently combing through my hair. I looked up from his chest to see him smiling at me, an expression both serene and devilish.

“Mornin’.”

“Good morning,” I answered. My body felt like it had never felt, both exhausted and refreshed, stiff and strained yet somehow loose, flexible. But I knew instantly why I felt different, and he was lying right next to me.

“So… your first orgasm, eh?” I broke out in self-conscious little gasp, but I knew we’d come too far to be worried about such petty little things. There was nothing to hide from him now and no reason to hide anything. I just nodded, burying my face in his chest out of sheer childish embarrassment.

He gently raised my face from his chest, fingers under my chin so our eyes could meet. In a voice very low and growly, he said, “You mustn’t think it had anything to do with you.”

I couldn’t help but say, “I guess I know that now.”

Langdon lay back and chuckled, shaking his head. “American men, think they’re the cock of the walk.”

“It wasn’t their fault,” I had to say. “They just weren’t… well, they just weren’t you.”

We lay together in a long, sultry silence, Langdon gently stroking my head. I didn’t want to ask, but I knew I had to. “So… what now?”

He gave it a little thought. “Shower, maybe.”

“No, I mean… I don’t just fall into bed like this.”

“I know that, Sheryl. I knew it from the first time I set eyes on ya.”

A sad silence hovered between us, threatening me with a truth I didn’t want to know.

“But you still got what you wanted. And I guess I did too.”

“So… no worries, yeah?” I wanted to feel the same way, and I determined there and then that no matter what happened I wouldn’t let the outside world destroy that moment, that night we’d shared, or the memory.

I knew it was pretty likely that memories would be all I’d wind up with in the end.

Langdon asked me, “When is my meeting with the bossman?”

“You meet with Mr. Alister day after tomorrow, noon.”

Langdon considered, scratching his chin as his brown eyes juddered around the room before finding my own baby blues. “Alright, tell you what: You’ve got some things to do, I imagine, and I have one or two things to look into myself. Why don’t we part ways for now, take that meeting, see how things go?”

My stomach sank. See how things go. I knew what that meant.

***

I knew Langdon was right, and as much as I wanted to stay with him, I had to get back to the items on John’s list. I found the mink coat John wanted me to pick up for his wife, and a few other items, and then I went straight back to my apartment to stow the stuff away until the holiday just a week or so later.

Ricardo wasn’t there when I got home. I was a little disappointed.

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