Hidden in the Shadows by Elana Johnson

Author:Elana Johnson [Johnson, Elana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: AEJ Creative Works

The next afternoon found him pacing in front of the wide windows in his penthouse. Rusty panted in the corner, watching him through slitted eyes, a doggy smile on his retriever face. He finally got up and came over to Andy, nosing his hand.

“I’m fine,” Andy said, though he felt like someone had poured an entire hive’s worth of bees down his throat. He twitched and itched, and it felt like every second was agony.

Finally, the buzzer near his front door sounded. “Andy, I’m coming up,” Sami said. He’d walked her all the way to her front door last night, where she’d glanced to the house next door.

Her brother Liam lived there, and while he was private too, Sami wouldn’t allow Andy to kiss her out in the open. So they’d gone inside. She’d given him a little tour of her house, which could fit in a quarter of this penthouse. It was rustic, and functional, with Sami’s personal touches in the curtains and couch cushions.

In the end, he’d pressed her against the back door—the site of the end of their tour—and kissed her until they were both breathless. He’d wanted to stay the night, but he hadn’t dared ask. Sami kissed him back with as much passion as he poured into the exchange, but he also knew she had values she believed in.

He respected her, so he’d led her to the front door with her hand in his, kissed her again in a sweet, chaste manner, and gone home.

A chime dinged, alerting him that someone had arrived in the elevator on his floor. He had to manually push a button to allow the doors to open, and he had cameras inside the only elevator that could even get to the twentieth floor.

He caught Sami looking up at it, wearing her usual slacks and blouse, and carrying two cups of coffee. He pushed the button, and the elevator doors slid open.

His front door was locked too, but he could unlatch it with a keypad on his desk, which he did. Sami entered a moment later, bringing the scent of dark roast and sugar with her. As she joined him at the window, she handed him a cup of coffee with the words, “Half-caf.”

She took a sip of hers and then turned all of her attention to Rusty. He got a good body scrub, some giggles, and to lick Sami’s face—all things Andy wanted too.

When she finally eased into his side, she lifted up on her toes and pressed the sweetest kiss to his cheek. “You ready?”

“Mm.” He took a sip of his coffee with one hand and squeezed her upper arm with the other. “Can’t we just stay here? You haven’t even seen my whole penthouse.”

“Oh, so you want to give me a tour now. Is that it?”

“You showed me your place last night.”

“It’s a fraction as big as this place.” She glanced down at her feet. “And I wore heels.”

He chuckled. “You always wear heels, Sami.” Sudden panic hit him.

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