Why don’t you pick me up after work? We can go to the apartment, then we can ALL go out for a meal maybe? I’d really like to make sure he’s settled in okay. I notice a new e-mail from Ana when I sit down at my desk.Įthan is back, and he’s coming here to collect keys to the apartment. If you use it for a proper honeymoon, make sure I’m away, too.” She gives me a rare smile and I close my office door. I dismiss her gratitude with a wave as I head into my office. I RETURN TO MY office showered after my bout with Bastille, and Andrea is waiting for me. “She’ll have no trouble punishing your sorry ass if you fight like this, Grey,” he crows. Something like that.” I lunge for him, but he feints left, his dreads flying, and he knocks me down with a swift roundhouse kick.īastille’s pumped up. “So Dante told me you brought a beautiful girl into the bar. He’s knocked me down three fucking times. I approve,” she says.īASTILLE IS ON FIRE. “Your private merger?” she says with a curious look. Please stick close.”īack in the room, the meeting is wrapping up. “I’ll let Sawyer know.” I laugh at the reactions around the table. I laugh as Ros and Marco exchange a look. “They probably all thought you were gay, you know.” There are six people staring at me right now wondering who the hell I’m talking to.” Everyone looks away. It might be handy if you gave me Sawyer’s number, so I don’t have to bother you.” “Christian, Jack has asked me to get his lunch.” “Excuse me,” I say as I pick up the phone. My phone buzzes and Ana’s name flashes on my screen. “He’s excited,” Marco replies with an avaricious grin. “They are floundering, but they have four patents pending, which might be useful in the fiber-optic division.” We’re going through a list of companies that Marco’s people have identified as potential targets for takeovers. LATER, I’M IN MY monthly meeting with Ros and Marco-my M&A guy-and his team. I continue my read of the SIP agreement but don’t get very far before there’s a new e-mail from her.Ĭompletely & Utterly Smitten, Shocked, and Spellbound CEO, Grey Enterprises Holdings, Inc.

I do admire a woman who concentrates on geography.Īm I to infer you just want me for my body?Ĭompletely & Utterly Shocked CEO, Grey Enterprises Holdings, Inc.

I don’t think that’s ever happened to me before. I’ve just spat coffee all over my keyboard. Fortunately, I have tissues left over from yesterday’s coffee fiasco. Laughing and choking at the same time, I spit coffee onto my keyboard at “Sex Mad and Insatiable.” I can’t believe she’s written that in an e-mail. But I love being in bed with you and in elevators and on pianos and billiard tables and boats and desks and showers and bathtubs and strange wooden crosses with shackles and four-poster beds with red satin sheets and boathouses and childhood bedrooms. When I look up, there’s a response from Ana.

Darker as told by christian