And his body reacted.Immediately.
“Damnit, Hannah, I’m in an important meeting!And you call me to tell me what you’re wearing?Are you crazy?”He hissed, looking around if anyone was close by.He turned around so he could face the wall.How the hell was he supposed to walk back into the meeting now, looking like this?
“I’m—”
The next minute the line was down, and Darryn groaned out loud.The full impact of what had just happened only now dawned on him.If he wasn’t mistaken, Hannah contacted him for some phone sex and he reacted like an absolute idiot.
He tried to call her back, but her phone didn’t even ring, she had to have switched it off completely.
At that moment, the doors to the conference room opened, and the three sellers walked out, all clearly fed up.They briefly nodded in his direction before they headed for the elevators.
Dumbstruck, Darryn stared after them.The meeting couldn’t be over already, damnit.They hadn’t solved anything!He stormed back into the conference room where his three brothers were still sitting around the table.
“What the hell happened?”he asked.
“Well, if you were here, you would have known,” Don said irritably while he got up and closed his laptop.
“The ball in is their court.They know they won’t get another offer like ours for the land.They have until tomorrow to give us a final answer.There is an alternative piece of land we can try, but the plans I’ve been working on are based on this property.Damnit, what a bloody mess!”Dale growled.
“What call was so important that you had to leave?”David asked, obviously also irritated.
“It…it was Hannah,” Darryn said, frustrated.So not only had the meeting been a waste of time, Hannah was also not talking to him.
“So, what was so important that you had to leave to take her call?”asked David.
“She phoned to…” he began before he realized there was no way he could tell his brother about the mess he’d just made with Hannah’s call.
Don slapped his shoulder as he passed him.“As long as you weren’t having phone sex while we were battling alone inside—”
“How the hell did you know that?”Darryn asked.Only when the words had popped out of his mouth, did he realize he’d said them out loud.
His brothers all stared at him.
“Oh, man!”David finally chuckled.“I hope it was worth it.”
“At least someone had some fun this morning,” Dale grumbled.
“I wasn’t having fun, damnit!I thought she was in trouble and then—”
Now all three of his brothers were openly laughing at him.
“So, you’ve screwed up phone sex?”Dale snickered.“You really need help.”
“I could give you some pointers,” Don said with a poker face.
“Me too,” David piped in.
“Get the hell off my back,” Darryn snarled, walking toward the elevator.“I’ll fix it myself.”
As the elevator doors closed, he looked up to see his brothers still laughing.Bloody hell.He didn’t even want to think what was going on in Hannah’s mind at the moment.He had never been good with any kind of telephone conversation, never mind the sexy kind.Which, come to think of it, he’d never even considered up to now.
And, to be honest, he hadn’t thought Hannah would be this adventurous.But then he remembered her as she was standing behind Stephen White—arms held high, ready to clobber him with the heel of her shoe.
Man, she was everything he’d ever wanted in a woman—so why the hell was he here in South Africa when she was New York?
*
Hannah wished therewas a hole she could crawl into and stay there.She was mortified.Of course, Darryn would be busy in the middle of the day.What was she thinking calling him without checking what time it was and telling him what she wasn’t wearing?It hadn’t even occurred to her to look at the time, to think about what he might be doing.
