Lovers and Takers by Cachitorie Katherine

Author:Cachitorie, Katherine [Cachitorie, Katherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Austin Brook Publishing
Published: 2012-10-19T04:00:00+00:00

TEN

After a morning meeting in the suite’s boardroom, Jake, fully dressed in suit and tie, returned to the bedroom expecting to find Roni still comfortably asleep. Instead, to his delight, she was showered and dressed and ready for whatever the day might bring.

“There’s my lady,” he said smilingly as she sat like a sweet innocent on the made up bed. She wore a light yellow cardigan sweater and a pair of straight leg, form fitting jeans. She looked simply irresistible to him. “Why didn’t you come up front?” he asked her.

“I certainly thought about it,” Roni admitted, “but I was able to field phone calls from my own staff.”

“You’re a workaholic,” Jake said to her pointedly as he walked toward her.

“Takes one to know one, babe,” Roni replied and he smiled.

“What about you?” she asked. “Was this morning’s session ultimately productive?”

“Hell no,” he responded as he put his arms around her. “These morning sessions rarely are. It’s usually late at night, when everybody’s so tired and frustrated, that one side or the other will give in.”

“So you kick the can down the road until what? It stops rolling?”

Jake loved her intellect. “Correct. And that is exactly why,” he said, pulling her closer, “we meet and we meet and we meet until we have meetings coming out of our asses.”

Roni laughed.

And then, when the laughter turned into silence, they just stood there. Because Jake was mesmerized by the view. Roni seemed to look more beautiful to him every time he laid eyes on her, which was hard for him to fathom. She was already beautiful in his eyes the first time he met her, how could she possibly continue to impress? But she did. And it wasn’t always about a certain look, either. But a certain style about her. The way she laughed. The way she shifted from foot to foot whenever she stood. The way she looked at him as if he were impressive to her, too.

He kissed her. And he purposely didn’t mean for it to be a passionate kiss, but, instead, a possessive one. This is mine, was how he felt about it. And it was a uniquely odd feeling for a man like him.

So odd, that, after the kiss, he quickly moved away from her.

“Good news,” he said as he began removing his coat and tie for more casual wear.

“What?”

“I have put all parties on notice that I am not to be disturbed for the next three days. The only way they are to interrupt me,” he added, tossing his coat and tie onto a chair and unbuttoning his shirt, “is if they have a contract on my terms and in need of nothing but my signature.”

Roni snorted. “Good luck with that,” she said.

Jake agreed, heading toward his massive walk-in closet. “That’s why we shouldn’t be bothered at all.”

“Oh, Jake,” Roni remembered, prompting Jake to turn around. “I already took the liberty of getting you something out to wear.” She pointed toward a clothes rack in the room.

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