Loving the Bodyguard by Noelle Adams

Author:Noelle Adams
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Six

Sitting at his desk, Logan saw a New Message notification flash on his screen. He clicked from a report to his email. It was from Allison. No text in the message, only the subject line which read: Be in my office in thirty minutes.

Touché. A half-smile kicked up the corner of his mouth.

Without hesitation, he clicked the check mark to accept the invite. Then he went back to his project report.

Soon after, he lost the ability to concentrate on work. He knew what lay in store. Starting with Allison reaming him out, followed by…what, he wasn’t sure. He was confident he’d done the right thing, the only thing he could do—make sure the mother of his child was safe. The kind of protection only he could provide, which included her living under his roof.

The words in the report blurred, the letters creating incoherent phrases. He caught himself tapping his foot. It didn’t help that meeting reminder messages kept flashing at him every five minutes like a bunker warning that screamed “fire in the hole!” He clicked Dismiss All.

He shoved his chair away from his desk, the casters rolling him back two feet. He stood and paced. He crossed his arms. Uncrossed them. Stared at the view of the Denver skyline from his corner office.

Rolling his neck to ease his tight muscles, he thought back to that morning. Before dawn, when he met the moving van outside her apartment, he’d had all his arguments in a row like a checklist he could mark off as he hit each rational point.

That he and Allison would have this argument at work, however, left a bad taste of uncertainty in his mouth. Maybe he could convince her to wait until the end of the day to have it out with him. Yeah, and maybe the Cubs will win the World Series.

An odd sensation hooked into his nerves, making his skin itch and his heart skip a beat. His palms were moist like he was about to show up for a first date with roses and champagne with a woman he knew would turn him down.

He stopped pacing and shook his head. “Don’t be an idiot,” he mocked himself.

When the hands of his titanium Rolex read nine-thirty, the sense of impending doom had not disappeared.

This is stupid. He’d go in, lay out the facts, and field all the objections she lobbed at him. Like dodging mortar shells.

“Should be fun,” he muttered. He left his office for hers. Along the way a stab of remorse gouged him for putting her through this same thing yesterday when he’d called her into his office.

The battalion of employees that rushed him when he emerged from his office was strangely absent. Usually they hovered around him, pelting him with questions only he could answer, shoving papers in his face only he could sign. But the hallway was empty.

Taking a deep, he approached Allison’s office door and knocked.

“Come in,” she said. He couldn’t gauge the tone of her voice.

Squaring his shoulders, he entered.

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