Hostile Takeover by Lucy Lennox

Author:Lucy Lennox [Lennox, Lucy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lucy Lennox
Published: 2021-10-25T18:30:00+00:00

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Grey

“Being ruled by your emotions… can only lead to catastrophe.”

~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War

I wanted to fuck him. It was as simple as that. Apparently nothing had changed in fifteen years despite many, many, many hours of self-lecture about how, if given the chance, I would never, ever let Ellison York get close to me again.

Now, here we were.

“Get in the damned bed, Ellison,” I said before making my way to the steamy bathroom and searching for my toothbrush. I didn’t take kindly to strangers going through my things, and I was on edge from discovering the room stewards had unpacked my bags.

I could hear Ellison scrambling between the sheets while I opened a drawer in the vanity to discover my toiletries. I took plenty of time brushing my teeth and washing my face so Wild-Nerves McGee could settle down in there. You’d have thought being gay was somehow contagious the way he was trying to avoid even the idea of us sharing a bed.

While I didn’t for a minute imagine his intent was purposeful, Ellison had been tempting me all night. The way the thin cashmere sweater draped over his broad shoulders and toned chest, the way his slender fingers twitched between mine as he held my hand, and the way his eyes always searched me out regardless of how far away from me he was in the room. The way he smelled like all of the bath products in my guest room at home. He was seriously knocking me off-kilter.

I’d enjoyed holding his hand so much tonight that I’d finally used the excuse of drinking several glasses of water to keep from reaching for him yet again.

And then I’d had to pee while he was buck naked and wet in the shower.

This night, this weekend, was going to be impossible. If I wasn’t worried about being discovered and offending our hosts, I might have tried to arrange a clandestine hookup with the attractive red-haired man we’d met from San Francisco. From the looks he’d given me at dinner, I gathered one positive word from him might have taken care of my little pent-up problem.

But I wouldn’t do that to Ellison, no matter how fake our relationship was. Also? I didn’t want the redhead. I wanted the New Yorker who’d eaten half my salad and then finished my dessert.

I stared at myself in the mirror. “Welp, here we are. So much for fifteen years of being over Ellison fucking York.”

It hadn’t helped that several people had mistakenly assumed Ellison was dating Binnie’s niece instead of me. I’d gotten the feeling their relationship was one the guests at this house party had speculated about for years since Ellison and Cate were of similar age and both wealthy, successful, and attractive.

And it hadn’t helped that they appeared to be great friends with plenty of things in common. They’d spent part of the evening discussing risk-based capital requirements for merchant banking investments as it related to the law. Instead of

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