Profited (Bound Together #2) by Lacey Black

Author:Lacey Black [Black, Lacey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-06-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen – RSVP

Reid

“Legal is delayed on the Riviera contracts because their Board of Directors are no longer backing the President of the Board’s decision to sell,” Carly says in the background. Hell, she’s been talking for the last ten minutes and I haven’t a clue what the fuck she’s said.

“Reid!” she exclaims as she slams her hand down on my desktop. “What the hell is wrong with you?” she asks, concern written all over her beautiful face.

“Nothing,” I respond automatically, clearing my throat as I look down at the latest financial report on the Riviera property.

“Reid Hunter, that’s the biggest crock of crap I’ve ever heard. I could have just told you there was an elephant in the room and you wouldn’t have blinked an eye,” Carly says.

I look around the room instantly as if I were going to see some magic elephant sitting in the corner somewhere.

“Just distracted, I guess.”

Distracted? What’s more distracted than distracted? That’s where the fuck my mind is. Dani. Ryan. I can’t get them out of my head. It’s been over a week since our trip to Shark Reef, and I’ve spent almost every night at their house–leaving to go home to my empty house when Ryan goes to bed.

I haven’t worked past six o’clock in the past eight days and the result is a pile of work anchoring down my desk, filling up my email. But I can’t seem to stay away from them. The one night I wasn’t able to go over to their place, I was miserable and thinking about them the whole night. A dinner meeting with the President of the Board for Riviera had been in the works for weeks. Hell, months. But the entire time I sat there listening to the man drone on and on about how their profits have been falling and investors are pulling, all I could think about was whether or not Dani was asleep yet and whether Ryan brushed his teeth before bed. But knowing Dani as well as I do now, I know that she made sure he did before bed.

It took every ounce of control that I had to not excuse myself and leave the meeting. Jon kept giving me that look, like he knew exactly where the fuck my mind was. Oh, he knew that I wasn’t mentally present at that meeting. If it wasn’t written all over my face, it surely was a dead giveaway when I missed important details of the conversations and he had to speak on my behalf.

The Monday after our lunch and visit to Shark Reef, I knew I’d have my best friend in my office before my first cup of coffee. What I wasn’t expecting was for him to beat me in. Jon was already sitting in one of the leather chairs across from my desk when I stepped off the elevator, well before seven o’clock.

I barely had my briefcase deposited on my desk before the Great Inquisition began. When I told him I hadn’t taken a paternity test, I thought he was going to leap across the table at me.

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