He’d insist on hiring someone else to handle her office duties and she wasn’t ready to let go of them. They’d never talked about what would happen when she was done with school. She didn’t think he was going to walk away but he’d also never told her he loved her, though to be fair she’d never said the words either, at least not privately when it would ring true.
Inside the place was chaotic, they had three prospective clients who’d stopped in on a whim, and she knew they would want to hear their whole pitch. Normally she didn’t mind entertaining the new clients, but she’d been on her own for almost two weeks while Jordan was out of town completing a job at another college they’d been asked to submit a bid for thanks to their amazing accomplishments here. It was only for one newbuilding, but they wanted the same sort of program they were using at Whitmore and Jordan had been in and out of town the past year and away the last two weeks straight, the longest she’d ever been without him, and it sucked.
She pasted a polite smile on her face and introduced herself. They were still using Holmes and some days it got confusing especially since she was listed as Holmes and not Turner in her classes though her degree had Turner on it.
It was after seven before she managed to get everything in order and set up for the next day. She thought about driving home, to the little house they still lived in, but she didn’t want to sit behind a wheel that long. Tate still stopped by occasionally, but he had his own place in town and was content with entertaining his friends there.
She could always pop over to Nicole and Caleb’s, but she didn’t want to interrupt them either. They’d gotten married two years ago and were expecting their first baby, something that thrilled her in-laws to no end and Gabrielle kept dropping hints about her and Jordan being next.
She figured that would be Jake and Susan, or Alana and Stuart but they seemed to be content with their two. Grant was the only one who was still single and claiming that he was going to stay that way. She loved them all and couldn’t begin to imagine not having them in her life.
Mel walked over to the drafting table that held piles of blueprints they’d gone over and were working on to boost their portfolio. Tate would take them and make the 3D models once they were finished but there was one set that neither Tate nor Jordan had seen. She cleared the others from the board and sat down adjusting the lights to dim the rest of the room.
She lost track of time until she felt a set of arms slip around her waist and she jumped. She flipped around and her fear fellaway replaced by a bright grin. “I didn’t think you were going to be back until tomorrow.”
“I couldn’t stay away any longer,” Jordan told her as he pulled her into his arms and kissed her deeply.
“Mmm…” She moaned as the kiss deepened further. He pulled back dropping a light kiss on her lips as he hugged her tightly to him. “I think we should go home now.”
“Why’s that baby?” he asked with a light laugh as he dipped his head for another kiss.
“I think you know exactly why Jordan.” She sighed as his hands slipped below her top.
“Why go all the way home when there’s a perfectly good couch in my office?” he asked nipping at her bottom lip as his hands travelled further up her stomach. He picked her up, carried her into his office, and shut the door though they were alone, and the outer door locked.
“Jordan…”
“Did I shock you? That makes two of us but being away from you for two entire weeks…I’ve dreamt about you, holding you, kissing you, making love to you,” he said against her lips, and he grabbed the hem of her shirt lifting it over her head as he briefly cut off the kiss.
“Jordan, please.” She sighed as his hands found the clasp for her bra and unhooked it while her hands searched for the buttons on his shirt.
“I wasn’t going to stop in here. I was going to go directly home and pull you into my arms and kiss you until we were both naked.”
“I think you’re doing a pretty good job of that,” she teased stepping out of her jeans before letting him do the same.
“I had no idea what I was doing here until I saw the Jeep out front,” he told her as he sank into her body. She stalled his talking by kissing him deeply until they were both lost over theedge of oblivion. She felt herself drift off as he held her tightly against him and when she finally roused, she was alone on the couch with the throw from her office wrapped around her. She spied Jordan’s shoes and dress shirt on the floor still telling her he definitely hadn’t left her entirely alone and slipped into the top.
She peeked out the door as she buttoned it and rolled up the sleeves wondering if he’d gotten up to go to the bathroom or get a drink perhaps. When she heard a small sound from her office, she went into it to check on what Jordan was doing.
“How long have you been working on this?” Jordan asked the moment she appeared in the doorway.
“A few months, they’re not done yet,” she admitted crossing over to hide them.
“They’re brilliant Mel,” he said pulling her back into his arms. “Are they for school, our portfolio…”
“Us…I just thought, I mean if you don’t like them, we don’t have to,” she rushed in with and this time he stalled her with a kiss.
“I love them and they put mine to shame,” he said with a laugh ushering her across the hallway to his office. He pulled out a set of blue prints and spread them out over his drafting board for her to see them. “See, yours are perfection compared to these.”
“I don’t know, come on,” she said getting an idea from his. “Bring the plans,” she added with a laugh when he started to come after her without them. She tacked them up on the wall in front of her drafting board, looked at them then back at hers and grabbed her pencil.
“What are you doing?” Jordan asked wrapping his arms around her and bringing her down onto his lap as he sat on the stool.
“You’ll see,” she said giving him a light kiss.
He watched as she made changes and smiled into her hair. “Mel, you’re absolutely amazing do you know that?”
“So I’ve heard once or twice,” she teased putting her pencil down and reviewing what she’d done. “You like them?”
