“Mr.Harvey,” he said.He was all mock incredulity and disapproval.“How unprofessional!”
“You want me to do this like a professional?”I asked with a grin.“I hear they go for hours on the sets.You should know.Filmmaker.”
“I don’t make those kinds of films,” he said with a laugh and squirmed out of my grip.He headed for the stairs.
“Maybe you should start,” I suggested – and ran after him up the stairs.He yelped and ran for his life to the bedroom.He allowed me to catch him and throw him onto the bed.I crawled over him and tugged at the buttons on his shirt.“And you can start by losing this.”
“Yes, sir,” Keaton said and began wrenching his clothes off so eagerly I could only laugh – and join him.
It was only when I was deep inside him that the moment came over me as quick as the closing of shutters.I looked down at him in my bed and I knew.I would never be as happy as I was at this moment.This was it: the peak of my life.
Maybe that implied it was all downhill from here.
But there was something about Keaton’s smiling and writhing face below me that promised it wasn’t.
“Keaton Dunbar,” I said breathlessly as I came to a solid stop.I held myself over him on my hands.
“What?Don’t stop!”he half-yelled.“What is it?”
I swung my eyes over his form one more time.He was kissed by the sun streaming through the windows.Drops of sweat flecked his skin as he panted for breath.He was as gorgeous as he had ever been.
“Marry me,” I said.
He stared at me for a long moment.
“Will you keep moving if I say yes?”
“Yes,” I promised him with a grin.I gave an evil flick of my hips from side to side just to reinforce it.
He groaned long and low before opening his eyes and locking them with mine.“Then yes,” he said.“Just don’t ever stop like that again!”
And my future husband’s wish was my command.
Epilogue: Keaton
“There’s no way you’ll get them to agree to this pitch,” Olly had said.
“I think they’ll go for it,” I’d told him stubbornly.“I’d bet my career on it.This is a risk, yes, but it’s agoodcommercial.And the new CEO – I think he likes taking risks.”
“Fine,” Olly had said off-handedly, leaning back in his chair.“I bet you can’t get them to agree to the full proposal.”
“What do you bet?”
“If you get the deal…” my husband – it was still so new and thrilling to be able to say that – had seemed to think for a moment.“I’ll serve you champagne right here when you get back.”
“That’s it?”We had champagne all the time after closing deals.
“And I’ll be naked,” he’d said with a waggle of his eyebrows.
And that was how I found myself almost buzzing with excitement as I ran back to the office to tell Olly the good news.
“He’s gonna be thrilled,” Ace said with a grin.“Even I didn’t think you were going to pull that one off.But theylovedit!The looks on their faces!”
“I know, right?”I grinned back.“You all doubted me.I’m actually good at this.”
Ace laughed and slapped me on the shoulder.“Don’t worry.None of us doubt that anymore.”
“Any more?”I pretended to be hurt.
