I watched Colin’s playful face melt into one of stone as I slid off his lap and back onto the couch.
“I want you with me, Abby. Always. The time I spent away from you after Christmas almost killed me. I spent night after night sleeping in my office because I tried to work your memory away. But instead, all I was doing was running through employee files in my spare time to make sure you were doing well. I worried about you. I wondered how you were doing. So many times I was one or two buttons away from dialing your number and hearing your voice in my ear, but I thought I was protecting you. From the press. From the whispers. And from myself.”
“From yourself?” I asked. “But Colin, you’re a wonderful—”
“Unless you’re going to say wonderfully infuriating man or something of the sort, then it’s a load of crap and you know it.”
I smiled at him and giggled before I drew in a deep breath through my nose.
“I want you to come back to L.A. with me,” he said. “I want you to be at my side. I want to see you every single day and take you home with me every night. If you don’t want to live with me, then we’ll find you your own place. If you don’t want an office on the same floor as mine, then we’ll find you somewhere else in the building to set up shop. You let me handle Rohan and Hadley. All you have to do is say yes.”
It was almost too good to be true. This man who had somehow captured my heart and stolen my soul was about to hand me my dream job. He was offering me everything on a silver platter, and all it took was one little word to have it all. I smiled and shook my head before laughter started falling from my lips, and I squealed with delight before I threw my arms around Colin’s neck.
I peppered her neck with kisses before I moved my lips to his ear.
“Yes,” I said, whispering. “I’ll take the job.”
His laughter filled the room as he leapt up from the couch. His arms held me close to him as he spun me around. The two of us giggled with joy as tears of delight streamed down my face, but then a thought crossed my mind.
“The red eye flight,” I said. “I have to cancel it.”
“You leave that to me,” Colin said.
“No, no. I’m serious. It wasn’t a maybe. I switched my flight. I have to cancel the ticket.”
“And I told you to let me handle it,” he said.
I looked up into his eyes as he pulled his phone from his pocket. Without breaking our gaze, he held the phone to his ear and began to speak. He talked with the person on the other end of the line and got the ticket canceled and somehow refunded, then he finagled me onto the same flight he was on in the morning before he hung up the call.
He tossed his phone to the couch before he closed the distance between our bodies, and I just knew he could see my heart slamming against my chest.
His hand came up to cup my cheek before I rose up to my tip toes. He met me right in the middle as our lips connected and I could feel the electricity surging around us. I ran my hands up his chest, taking in the rippling strength underneath his button down shirt as his hands ran down my sides.
His hands splayed along my hips as he pulled me into him, our tongues battling for dominance.
My hands flew to his hair and raked through his luscious black thickness. Our teeth began to clatter as his hands grasped my ass. He dipped down and grabbed onto my thighs, pulling me against his body as he lifted me off my feet. I wrapped my legs around his waist and pressed into him, tilting his head back so I could continue feeling his lips against mine.
He walked me into the wall and pinned me to it as his lips traveled down my neck. He kissed and he sucked while his hands ventured up my shirt. I grabbed the back of his head and pressed him into my breasts, feeling him smile as he mouthed at my sensitive nipples through all the layers of fabric that separated me from him.
Then, he pulled my shirt over my head and quickly unhooked my bra.
Chapter 23
Colin
I wrapped my mouth around her beautifully dark nipple before I peeled her away from the wall. I could hear her moaning with wanton lust as her hands held me to her body. I walked us into the bedroom and slowly lowered her to it, my tongue spoiling her nipple with ministrations I knew were driving Abby wild.
“Oh, that tongue of yours, Colin. It drives me wild.”
Grinning around her nipple, I released it with a pop. I kissed down her body as she gripped at my clothes, trying to get me out of the layers that separated my skin from hers. I undid the button of her pants with my teeth as she watched me, her chest flushed with a red tint that could only mean one thing.
She wanted me as much as I wanted her.
I slid her pants down her legs, bringing her panties with me in the process. I could see her glistening for me as I undressed her, like a Valentine’s Day gift purchased especially for me. I kissed up her leg and watched her jump at my touch. She looked beautiful in the darkness of the hotel suite. Like a piece of chocolate filled with a caramel filling that my lips would drain her of.
Slowly, I inched her legs
