“Here…” he whispered, sliding an arm around my waist and spinning me around.
He gently pulled my hair to one side. Then he adjusted my necklace before tugging my dress down.
We stared at each other for several moments, not saying a word.
Grabbing my hand, he pulled me from the corner—leading me back to the front of the warehouse’s opening.
Headlights shone through the rain in the distance, but they didn’t look like they belonged to a bus.
As they neared, I realized they belonged to a car.
Asher’s rental car…
It coasted closer to us, and the driver rolled down the window.
“I forgot to tell you that the buses aren’t running today!” Omar smiled. “But I got your car back, and you can drop me off at home before heading back to your resort, huh?”
Twenty-One (B)
PRESENT DAY
ASHER
Katie moaned my name as she came apart for the fourth time today.
Panting, she rolled to the side of my mattress, and I stared into her eyes.
“You’re beautiful.” I brushed hair off her forehead. “So fucking beautiful...”
“Thank you.” Her breaths were ragged. “You too.”
I laughed, waiting for her to recover.
“Are we done trying to break up Chris and Michelle?” she asked, her voice soft.
“I’m done focusing on anything that’s not me and you for the rest of my time here.”
“Minus the wedding day, right?”
I blinked, and she laughed.
“Well, I can’t ghost my team once week three starts…even though they’ve kinda done that to me for some reason.”
“They’re just trying to enjoy a vacation,” I said. “They hardly get any of those while working under you.”
“How do you know?”
“Kelsey’s research.”
She narrowed her eyes at me, but then she suddenly burst into the loudest laughter I’d ever heard from her lips.
“Okay, that’s fair,” she said. “You want to tell me how you got into the opposite of what I do? Like what exactly spurred this career?”
“We can talk all about that later—much later.” I kissed her, pulling her back on top of me. “Long after I’m through with you this week…”
“What about the wedding activities?”
“You actually want to go to those?”
