Baron laughs and nods, his face flushing bright pink. “You didn’t, Baron! I thought we were staying here until things settled down!”
“It still needs to be fully retrofitted with electricity and water, so it’s not livable yet,” he reveals, and relief slumps my shoulders. There’s simply too much work to do here at the resort. Reaching across the table, Baron holds my hand and tangles our fingers together sweetly. “But it’s more than adequate enough to go chill out in. Spend the day at the beach and things like that. We’re going to put more cabanas down by the water eventually, anyway, so we need to get all the infrastructure down there set up regardless.”
“I suppose, the first thing the construction crew is going to do is fortify those stairs?” I ask with a grin, and Baron nods firmly. The waitress appears with glasses of water and menus, and I take mine with tingling fingertips. London never felt like home even though it was where I lived.
But now. . .
CHAPTER27
BARON
It's surprising how fast things go once you get the ball moving especially in the hospitality business. It's been three weeks since the wedding and not only has Delaney already started on the renovations for the Resort but I'm already looking for a replacement to run things for my businesses in London, after a week going back and forth to Costa Rica I knew that I didn't want to be away from Delaney for long periods of time and We decided to make Costa Rica our forever home. Now I just have to get things in place to make sure the rest of the businesses don't fall through the cracks. I immediately thought of Tom but of course he's going to need a bit of convincing. He seems to have the same fear he had before, I just need to work on showing him the pros of a situation like this. Who doesn't want to have a boss that's more than twelve hours away. Talk about the autonomy.
I can say that besides trying to get all my other business in order everything has been going to plan. My mother is staying her distance and the pregnancy is progressing well. Delaney seems to be more and more in her zone the more we dive into this project. We've had several local news crews come by already to shoot news stories about the Resort back on the rise.. They talk about how were going to bring substantial amount of jobs to the locals in town not to mention the increased tourist traffic. All in all everyone thinks this is a great idea for us to take this on. .
I lean back in the chair of my office and for a second almost fall asleep, all of this traveling is really killing me.
"Slacking off on the job I see?" Delaney says sexily as she saunters into the office.
I jerk up and hold a hand out for her.
"My love, I'm sorry. That plane ride was atrocious. Had me anxious all night." I say as she comes and sits down on my lap.
"Why don't you go home and get some rest, you know I can handle things here."
"Of course you can but I don't want to go home I want to be with my wife and my wife wants to be here."
"Aye. I can't take off there's so much to get done. I was thinking about doing some kind of musical festival here, maybe next year. Just an idea but I still want to call around and see what the prices on things are." She nods her head and puts a stack of papers she has in her hand on my desk. She sighs and I see the cogs turning in her head.
"Delaney, it's a sound idea but when are you ging to have time to do that. That's hours of calls and emails." I rub her knee and even though we discussed her no longer working the 14 hour days it seems likes she's inching closer and closer to it every day. She's going to run herself ragged and that's not healthy for her or the baby.
"I have to find the time I guess. You know it's just for now until we get the renovations finished then I can relax."
I reach up with my hand and pull her face down to kiss mine, then press her head to my chest. She shifts in my lap until she's comfortable and I lean back so we are both relaxing a bit.
"Love, you say that now and I believe you mean every word but both of us have been in this business long enough to know that there's always something after the renovations. There's an emergency wedding and then after that there's a sports team in town, there's always going to be something. I don't want to force you to do anything but I hate to see you work yourself so hard especially on things that you don't necessarily need to be doing." I push her away slightly so I can look into her eyes, Another bright idea forming, "You need an assistant."
She sighs and plops her head back on my chest harder.
"Oh jeez, not this again., I already did this I don't want to go through another hiring process.."
"Come on don't say it like that. It wasn't that bad and you got Jennifer out of it. She's good."
"She's perfect, worth double her weight in gold but that's the problem. I'm not going to find another assistant like her"
"This is true Jennifer is one of a kind but now you know the formula. You know what you need in order to make an assistant that can truly be of use to you. We won't find another Jennifer but we can find someone else that has talents that are comparable." I wait for her to see the logic in my words. After a few seconds she huffs out and nods her head roughly on my chest. .
"Fine."
"Don't be so mean about it, besides once you get someone to help you out that means there's more time for us to run off and play hooky together. How many lunch dates have we missed out on?"
She gasps and sits up in my lap abruptly, "You're upset I'm not spending any time with you aren't you? Is that why?" She asks going straight into panic mode.
"What, no no, no, I'm not upset... well that's not true. I'm upset I can't just lay in the bed with you all day and touch on your gorgeous body but I understand that we both have responsibilities. I'm not mad with you at all. You're work ethic is one of the many hundreds of thousands of reasons that I love you. But as your husband it's my sworn duty to make sure you're okay. First step is making sure you don't work yourself into an early grave."
She relaxes a bit with that. "Well, let me get together a listing for a new assistant." She plants a wet kiss to my mouth and I have to stop myself from grabbing hold of her waist and keeping her here with me. She's got work. The both of us have work to do. I watch her get up from my lap and walk slowly out the door. My cock twitching in my pants disappointed that no further fun will be had right now.
I rub a hand down my face and turn to my own computer to get some work that I need to do done here. She can't be the only one working here.
