Page 70 of Nothing to You
“And best enjoyed in small doses?”
“You want me to pamper you?Caviar?Champagne?Orgasms?”
“Yes, please,” she said, laying on a little sarcasm of her own.“Do a good job, maybe I’ll let you be my whore full time.”
“Better treat me right.Show a little gratitude.Make me feel appreciated.”She wriggled her top further down.“Just like that.”
He stole her hand to lay it on the stick shift under his.
Nothing wrong with a little time off, was there?They deserved a weekend of debauchery.Who was there to tell them otherwise?The business wouldn’t suffer, and they could multitask.They could depend on each other.Not that she’d ever admit he’d been right.
TWENTY-THREE
“DON’T WORRY, she’ll be here,” Roxie’s voice carried from the kitchen.“We have time.”
Rounding from the hall, she strode over to the women at the island by the patio pocket doors.“I’m sorry!I know, I was supposed to be here a half hour ago.”
Actually, the original meeting was scheduled for Monday morning at Mosaic.Somehow, it took her and Rourke until Wednesday to find their way out of the hotel suite.She couldn’t be sorry.Turning off their phones and doing nothing but each other was exactly the medicine both of them needed.
“Don’t worry about it,” Roxie said, swirling red wine in her glass.“We’ve all done it.”
“Done what?”she asked, grabbing the bottle to pour wine into the empty glass next to it.
Lilya sat opposite Jane and Roxie with her own glass of something orange.Fruit juice.Oh, the delights of pregnancy.The restrictions were just another in a long list of reasons she didn’t plan to have children.Ever.
“Locked ourselves in a bedroom with our honeys.”Roxie tipped her glass toward the other side of the island.“Lilya kept Kintyre locked up until he impregnated her.”
Lilya straightened.“It wasn’t a specified criterion.I can’t help it if his sperm are super-swimmers.”
Jane’s focus stuck to Roxie.“We hardly saw Merci and Reid on Crimson Isle.”
“Rainie and Gauge get the award for longest lock-in, that was like two weeks straight,” Roxie said.“He came back from Australia for her; I guess she owed him some kind of reward.”
“Zairn did a Tokyo round trip in like two days when you were broken up.”
“Trust you to remember that,” Roxie said.“Gauge bought the company who fired Rainie.That was hot.”
Lilya picked up Jane’s mantle.“Zairn gave you Lola’s Liberty with a billion dollars in its account for your birthday.What did he tell you?”
Their friend rolled her eyes.“To go play.”
“So romantic,” Jane swooned.
Roxie raised a pointed finger.“Technically, it’s a charitable donation, so he can claim it in taxes… or something.I don’t know.He says I’ll get the hang of the embezzlement thing soon.”
That got a laugh.
“Is there a man alive less likely to embezzle company funds?”Lilya asked.
To which Roxie and Jane replied in unison.“Kintyre.”
Another laugh.
“I could persuade him to be bad,” Lilya said, leaning back to show the hand on her hardly there baby bump.“If I could tell him it was in our child’s best interest.”
“I think he’d do anything for you,” Jane said.
Both Roxie and Lilya flattened their affects.
