"I'm glad I can finally fuck you in a nice bed," he told her.
"The storage room wasn't doing it for you?" she gasped out.
He kissed her, stifling a cry. It felt luxurious to fuck her as she lay like an unwrapped present in the tousled sheets.
Carter groaned as the heat and tightness of her was too much.
She bit his shoulder as she came, sending him over the edge as well. He rolled her over to sprawl on top of him.
"I don't want to go back," he murmured.
Allie kissed him. "I'm going to shower."
As they boarded the plane to go back to New York, Carter felt as if he were already flying. He ignored the dirty looks Digby and Vance gave him. Vance's face was splotchy and bruised. Carter supposed he had hit him harder than he thought.
He pushed it out of his mind. He was back in Allie's good graces, or at least he hoped he was.
I should ask her out once we land,he thought.I'll plan a real date, somewhere nice.
He wasn't able to, however, because as soon as they landed, Kate was waiting with a car to bring him back to the Holbrook estate.
"So I've been summoned?" Carter snapped when he saw her.
When he walked into his uncle's study, Grant was there, as was Jack.
"This couldn't wait?" Carter asked.
"I have to go to Asia," Walter said. "Grant has informed us about your workplace affair with Allie."
"Traitor," Carter muttered. "I can't believe you ratted me out."
"It's affecting your performance," his cousin replied.
"You need to end it before people find out."
"Grant didn't end anything with Kate," Carter retorted.
"Because he married her," Jack stated.
"Married her?What is this? The eighteen hundreds?" Carter yelled.
"No, but it is the corporate world. People are very conservative."
On the drive back to New York City, Carter ignored Grant and Kate, who rode in the car with him.
Marry Allie? That was a big step. He hadn't even taken her out for a real date.
He waited to see if there would be a moment he could ask her out for real, but Monique had given them a reminder about their projects, and now Allie was laser focused on creating an amazing deliverable.
A few days after returning from Oslo, Carter and Allie arrived at the Halcion Drone company headquarters to talk to the general manager, Trent Tanner.
Carter didn't like the look of the man, who swaggered over to greet them. His dislike intensified when Trent kissed Allie on the cheek and smirked.
"Hello, there Allie," he said. "And one of the famous Holbrooks, our new owners."
"I didn't know you worked here," Allie said.
Her voice sounded small, Carter thought. She wasn't her usual confident self.
