Page 49 of Temporarily in Love

I gripped her jaw. “Yeah, you do.”

She nodded. “I do.”

“There’s my good girl,” I purred.

I didn’t care that it was already late; I didn’t have to open the brewery until noon, anyway. Lila didn’t seem to care either, as we spent the next hour making each other come as much as possible.

I knew all this had a time stamp. Eventually, she’d go back to California, but I didn’t care about any of that when she was in my arms.

“Look at you strolling in late,” Gemma teased when I walked into the office way later than I intended to the next day.

“Shut it, Gem,” I said as I took my seat behind my desk.

She eyed me suspiciously. “You’ve been acting weird lately.”

If by weird, she meant happy, that was mostly because I was getting laid on the regular. That was all because of Lila. I told my heart to simmer down because this was all about my dick, but that didn’t stop me from smiling when she was with me. Or being in a good mood because I got to have her in my arms every night.

“You and Nol have way more in common than I realized,” she said.

“How so?” I asked.

I turned on my computer and opened up my sales report for the week. I had to admit, the pumpkin beer was selling well. It was October, though, so we couldn’t bank completely on the seasonal beers to carry us through. I had a meeting with the sales team later to go over projections and make sure we were on target with our goals.

“Because you’re both weak for your women!” Gemma teased.

I scoffed at her. “She’s not my woman.”

Gemma pinned me with an annoyed stare. “That’s bullshit, and you know it. Since Lila came back to town, you’ve been a completely different person.”

“Are you ever gonna stop being a pain in my ass?”

Gemma grinned from ear to ear like the annoying little sister she was. “You know I’m right!”

“Butt out of it, Gem.”

She glared at me. “Oh no! You don’t give me that. You’re a meddlesome fucker. Avery told me you were the one who told her to convince me to go to the cabin last summer and forced me to deal with Felix.”

I grinned. “Worked, didn’t it?”

“Not the point!”

“Get to work, Gem. Get off my dick.”

“Someone’s been on your dick a lot,” she muttered.

“None of your business.”

“Just…be careful.”

I was getting tired of people telling me to be careful, as if I wasn’t a grown adult who could make his own decisions.

Gemma turned around and went back to her work while I did my own. She got the hint that I didn’t want to talk about it anymore. She was hard at work organizing the Halloween party in a couple of weeks, so she was busy enough that she didn’t have time to bother me.

I buried myself in work for the rest of the day and was still in the middle of it when Gemma left for the day. Nolan came in a few hours ago to check in with me, but he was working on brewing the new beer and hadn’t bothered me since.

I was eating dinner at my desk as I finished payroll for the week when my phone vibrated. A smile spread across my face when Lila’s name popped up on my screen. I hadn’t heard from her all day, but I knew she was busy helping interview a new server and meeting with her marketing consultant today.

My eyes widened at the photo on my screen. Lila was lying in my bed in black see-through lingerie. A naughty smile played across her lips, and her dark hair fanned out on the pillow like she was an angel. A sexy angel ready and waiting for me.