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"Oh, yeah. We have so much work to do." He grins.
"Yeah, we do have work. I know. That's what I said.”
"So we'll take her to a hotel, and then we'll go back to my place and do some work?"
"That sounds like a good idea to me."
"Great," he says, and we just stare at each other awkwardly. I can feel the heat pulsing between us. He rubs my leg and I stare up at him in surprise. "You're a good friend," he says.
"Thank you. You're a good boss."
"I am?" he asks in surprise.
“Don’t let it go to your head, but yes, tonight you were. I appreciate you coming with me."
"I know that you think I'm a jackass, and maybe sometimes I am, but deep down inside, I'm a kind of good person."
"Yeah, very deep down inside," I say, teasing him.
"You know, I could take that comment somewhere else, but I'm not going to." He winks at me and we both start laughing.
Chapter Twenty
Kingston
My adrenaline is still at an all-time high as we make our way back to my apartment. I’m grateful that we got Elisabetta checked into a luxury hotel so that she can relax and unwind. I’m also grateful that Skye decided to come back with me. I could tell that the whole ordeal had really worked her up and I wanted to make sure she was okay.
I quite liked being her protector and I had felt like a knight in shining armor when she’d looked to me to decide what to do. She’d even backed me up when I’d given Elisabetta a small lecture about doing drugs and inviting strange men back to her place. I’d been angry at the thought of how badly the night could have ended. She’d not only put herself at risk, but Skye as well.
"So I just want to say before we go into your apartment that I'm not here necessarily for the arrangement that you have offered me," Skye says, staring me down with bright eyes.
My lips twitch for a couple of seconds and I raise an eyebrow. “Okay. So we will conveniently forget I just rescued your best friend and whisked you away in the night.”
She squeezes my hand. “I am grateful for that, but we both know the other conversations we’ve had.”
“We do.” I nod, though all I really want to do is pull her into my arms and devour her.
"I'm here because you said you were going to help me with these files, and I don't want to go to work at five o’clock in the morning to finish them. So I took you up on your offer. I have been weighing up whether or not I would like to enter a friends with benefits or enemies with benefits arrangement, but..."
"Hold up a minute," I say as I open the door to my apartment. "Enemies with benefits?"
"I mean, are we really friends? You're my boss and I don't know if one night of eating pizza and drinking wine makes us friends."
"True," I say. "So you're saying that when we get into the apartment, you don't want me to show you the 101 ways my tongue can make you cum?"
She laughs lightly and shakes her head. "No, I don't need to learn or know the 101 ways that you can do that," she says. "That's also quite impossible, I believe."
"Oh, trust me when I say it's not." I grin. "But come on. Let's go inside and we can do some work.'
"Okay." She looks at me cautiously. "And that's okay?"
"Is what okay?" I ask.
"Just working and not, you know, hooking up."
"I didn't invite you here just to hook up," I say seriously. "Sure. We had fun the other night and I would love to repeat it, but that's not what this is about. I didn't hire you, nor did I invite you over tonight, for the sole purpose of us making love or doing whatever. These files are very important. We have a lot of cases that we need to get to summary judgment and?—"
"Okay, okay," she says. "Remember, I'm not a lawyer. I don't even know what you're talking about."
