Page 84 of His Flash Mate
“Hurry up,” Marius said.“Bring the tablet to take notes.”
“Tablet?”
Edi pointed to the one that had appeared on my desk while we were gone.
“It’s easier to write with a stylus and have it convert to digital text when you need to summarize meetings.Trust us.Go.”He nodded toward the door.
“Aren’t you coming with?I thought I was your shadow.”
“He didn’t ask for Edi.”Bomir shooed me toward the door, and I reluctantly went.
Even though it wasn’t closed, I lightly knocked to get Konni’s attention.
“Did you need something?”I asked.
“Yeah.Come in and close the door.”
I did and stood by the chair in front of his desk.He frowned at me.
“Sit, Sophia.”
“Ms.Elmantas,” I corrected before taking a seat.“I’m curious.Is Konni your throwaway name when you go to the bars to pick up women?”
A laugh burst out of him.“No.”
“Then why did you introduce yourself as Konni and not Drake or Drokonnen?”
“Drokonnen Luka Steele is my legal name.People who don’t know me use Mr.Steele or Drokonnen.Drake is for acquaintances.Konni is for the people who really know me.Close friends or people I want to become close with.”
And yet Lianna called him Drake.Interesting.
The trio out there knew what they were talking about.
“Thank you for clarifying, Mr.Steele.I’ll make note of that when someone is requesting a meeting.”
He studied me for a moment, then stood.
Remembering the panty-wetting way he’d pinned me to my chair earlier, I popped to my feet and put it between us—along with his desk, since my sudden movement had stopped his.
“What are you doing, Ms.Elmantas?”
I smoothed my hand over the back of the chair.
“Dusting.”
He slowly smiled and prowled around his desk to lean against the front.
“I’ll let the janitorial staff know to pay more attention to my office in the future.But to get back to the reason I called you in here, I’d like to go home with you tonight to meet your mother.”
A shock rippled through me, and I gripped the chair with my free hand.
“No.Even if we’d had sex and accidentally mated, we wouldn’t stay mated.So, there’s no reason to pull my mom into my mistakes.”
My words ignited the gold in his gaze.
His humor faded.An edge ofsomethingtook its place, and it made me wish there was more than a chair separating us.
“Mating wouldn’t be a mistake, Sophia, but that’s not what this is about,” he said after a moment.“If your father is right and Hestian is behind what happened because of that contract, I need to know if this was the first time or if your mother was targeted before you.You mentioned she’s had poor luck with previous employment.”
