Turning Up the Heat--A Hot Billionaire Workplace Romance by J. Margot Critch

Author:J. Margot Critch
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-09-03T19:01:26+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

WITH GEMMA BUSY in Miami with her family, Tom hadn’t made plans to visit that weekend. So, when his father’s assistant called—on his father’s behalf, of course—to invite him to dinner on Friday night, he begrudgingly accepted. Of course, he missed Gemma, but with her father visiting Miami, they’d decided it was best for her to spend time with her family without the added potential drama of their illicit affair. Funny thing, though—his time with Gemma didn’t feel illicit to him.

So he made the trip out of the city to his father’s home, and he parked his car in the driveway. He wished he’d hired a car, because he might need copious amounts of alcohol to get through a dinner with his father and Carolina. He wanted nothing more than to be in Florida with Gemma, or holed up with her in his condo. She was gorgeous, sexy, intelligent, funny, sassy. He loved everything about being with her. With his hand on the door handle and with one foot out of his car, he paused. Love?

He loved talking to her, being with her, sleeping with her, eating with her, thinking about her. His chest clenched as he made his way to the front door. He wasn’t sure when it had happened, but somewhere along the way, Gemma had gotten under his skin. She was all he could think of. He rang the doorbell, and his father’s longtime housekeeper, Louise, opened the door.

“Thomas,” she said with a smile, drawing him in for a hug. Louise had worked for his family since he was a child. Hell, as his guardian, she’d been more of a parent than either his mother or father.

“Hello, Louise, how are you?”

“Very good for an old thing,” she told him.

“Well, you don’t look a day older than when I was a child,” he said, winking.

She giggled. “You old charmer, get in here.”

Tom walked into the salon—it had never been called the family room. They had never exactly been a family. He nodded in hello to his father, seated in his chair, and made a straight line for the bar in the corner. Fuck it. He’d call a car to pick him up.

He poured himself a glass of dark rum. Tasting it, he realized he’d always thought they’d made a decent rum, but this didn’t taste anything like Gemma’s. Since they’d started manufacturing and bottling in a plant, the product was missing something. That handmade quality. The art she’d spoken of. Love.

He took a seat in the chair opposite the ornate couch where his father and his wife sat. Carolina barely acknowledged his presence, not looking up from her phone as she tapped the screen with the manicured nail of her thumb, holding her wineglass in the other hand. He couldn’t imagine cold, calculating Carolina being part of Gemma’s family, and no matter what he thought of her brothers, he knew that they were a tight, loving family. That was something that he’d never known growing up in this home.

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