Working Stiff (Runaway Billionaires: Casimir): Runaway Billionaires #1 (Billionaires in Disguise) by Blair Babylon

Author:Blair Babylon [Babylon, Blair]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Malachite Publishing LLC
Published: 2016-05-16T23:00:00+00:00

DARKNESS BEFORE THE DAWN

In Cash’s dark bedroom, all through the night, Rox didn’t sleep much. She didn’t know how many nights she would have with Cash spooned around her, his arms and sometimes his leg heavy on her. His warmth and the faint musk from his body, now erotic, filled the sheets around her. She drifted in and out of wakefulness, savoring the moments, trying to remember everything.

This couldn’t last long.

When he stirred, though, he reached for her. When his fingers found her, he quieted and slept.

She hovered on the precipice of sleep, not quite falling over, when Cash’s deep, slow breathing changed in the dark. He inhaled and held it, his head moving near hers, and he rose up on one elbow to look over her before he blew his breath out.

The blue lines on the nightstand clock formed the numbers 6:45. Wan sunlight trickled in through the dark wooden blinds on the window.

He began to shift, lifting the covers and sliding away from her.

“Cash?” she asked, her voice hoarse with sleep.

“I’ll be right back. Go back to sleep.”

“You okay?” she asked.

“Yeah. I just need to do something.”

“Oh. Pee. Sure.”

Hey, they had been friends for years. On a business trip to Brazil, she had tossed anti-nausea medicine and Gatorade into his hotel bathroom when he had texted her that he was in trouble.

When he came back a few minutes later, the sun had risen farther, and enough sunlight was leaking through the wooden slats that Rox could see him a little better.

He had taped a fresh gauze pad on his cheek.

She asked, “Is it healed up under there? Because if it’s not, you need to see a doctor,” she mumbled.

“It’s healed.”

“Dude,” she said, pushing herself up to her elbows, “you didn’t need to put on a bandage. That’s like the first couple times that we traveled together when I used to get up at five o’clock to shower and put on full make-up and curl my hair before we met at the hotel gym at six-thirty.”

“Yeah, you don’t do that anymore.”

“Heck, no.”

“It was peeling off,” he said. “It itched.”

“It’s just me,” she said, flopping back on the pillow. “I don’t care if there’s a hole in your cheek and I can see your molars through there.”

He chuckled. “It’s certainly not that bad. We can sleep another hour or so before we have to get up.”

Rox smiled as she cuddled closer to him.

The dawn cast ruddy lines through the horizontal blinds. The room gradually brightened, and Rox slept.

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