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Now that was a good plan. “You really thought this through.” I didn’t hide the pride in my voice.
“Thanks, now how do you think we can pitch this to Lauren?”
I organized a video call with Lauren later that day so Emma could lay out her idea. We set up my laptop on the kitchen island and saton the chairs surrounding it as we talked to Lauren, who seemed to be looking at the clock every few minutes.
“If we are holding you up, you can go and we can send the details in an email,” I interjected and got Lauren’s attention.
“I’m sorry, I really didn’t mean to be rude,” Lauren got flustered. “It’s just that as great as the idea is, if it comes from her it won’t get the hype or the sponsorships that it deserves. Especially if you host it on her channel as you’ve been suggesting, Alex.”
“But I’m going to be there,” I reminded Lauren.
“True, but it is not your event. It isn’t going to attract as much of your audience as you think it will.” Lauren countered.
I was seething, albeit quietly, when Emma spoke up next to me.
“She is right, we should do it on your stream channel. It’s for charity, we want as much exposure as possible.”
“See, Emma gets it. Thank you for understanding my point of view. I really don’t mean to be rude?—”
“But you are being rude, Lauren. Now let’s talk about real solutions instead of trying to convince me to take credit for something I didn’t come up with and won’t be organizing.”
Both Emma and Lauren glared at me but I wasn’t going to budge on this. It was Emma’s idea, it was her thing, and it was her who was going to be doing the bulk of the organizing along with Lauren so she was going to get to host it and reap the rewards from it.
In the end, we settled on me co-streaming it so Lauren could sell it to the sponsors and greenlight the funding for the matched donations.
When we got off the call, Emma was still glaring at me. “Why did you have to be rude to her? She was just doing her job.”
I was baffled to say the least that this was whatEmma was irked by. “Excuse me? What do you mean? She was being rude to you, first of all—” I had raised my voice without meaning to and Emma’s face became stone-cold as I cut myself off. I felt immediately that I was wrong.
“No, she wasn’t. She was being realistic. Unlike you,” she said, her words clipped. “Please do not get angry on my behalf again. I can stand up for myself when I feel wronged. This was so unnecessary.”
“Okay,” I said, keeping my voice low and steady. “I’m sorry for raising my voice and for being difficult on the call. I’ll apologize to Lauren as well.”
Her face softened and she took a step closer to me, before lifting herself up to sit on the kitchen counter and then pulling at my shirt so I would step closer.
“Good,” she hummed. “Do you want to make it up to me?”
I nodded and took another step closer, as she spread her legs on the counter and hooked them around my hips.
“Then kiss me,” she whispered.
Her wish was my command. I leaned down, reaching out my good hand to her neck and captured her lips with mine. Every time we kissed my world tilted on its axis. She was all-consuming heat. She still wasn’t wearing pants, so I dropped my hand and started tracing lines up and down her hips and thighs.
“Nuh-uh, you’re not going to get away with this again. I want to do something for you,” she said, breaking apart the kiss.
“Okay then. Let’s take a shower and we’ll see what you can do for me afterwards,” I smiled and planted a kiss on top of her head.
Chapter 11
Emma
When he saidit like that, I thought he meant we would shower together.
In reality he let me shower first and then asked me to help put a plastic bag over his wrist brace before going in to shower himself.
In the mean-time I was already sexually frustrated and bothered. I laid fully naked on his bed and stared at the ceiling just trying to disassociate from the desire. Alex was taking his damn time in the shower and just knowing he was there naked and wet, was making me feral.
He finally walked out with a towel wrapped around his waist and another towel in his hand which he was using to dry off his hair.
