The restaurant Emily suggested wasn’t nearly as fancy as the one they’d gone to when Mia had first started working at Whitaker and Whitaker, but it was still nice. It was only a few blocks away from the office, so they’d walked, which was pleasant. The air wasn’t as fresh as Mia was used to back home, but it still helped to clear her head a little.Seated across from Emily at a table near the window, she could see lots of business people hustling by, trying to get back to their offices before their lunch breaks were over. Mia didn’t have to worry about that. Her boss wasn’t in, and she had nothing to do. She doubted Emily would have to hurry either. She couldn’t imagine Beau getting angry at her for being late. An image of Beau punishing Emily the way that Sam punished Mia came to mind, and she had to press it aside before she became angry or jealous of Emily for no reason.“So, how are you liking your job?” Emily asked, her tone conveying innocence. She took a sip of the water with l
Standing in front of Mia’s apartment door, Beau’s stomach was in knots. He felt like a high schooler, picking up a pretty girl for their first date, not like a thirty-three-year-old billionaire waiting for a woman he’d been dating for weeks to come to the door. His palms were sweaty, and he was pretty sure any sort of pungent odor would send whatever was left in his stomach from a late lunch spewing all over the dismal carpet in the hallway.When she came to the door, looking as gorgeous as ever in an emerald green dress, her hair up and the necklace he’d given her draped around her elegant neck, his breath caught in his throat. “Hi.” Mia arched an eyebrow at him waiting for him to respond to her greeting.Beau took a deep breath. “Hi. You look… amazing.”“Thanks.” Her eyes dropped to the bouquet of antique roses in various shades of pinks, reds, and whites, in his hand and then flittered back up to his eyes. “Are those for me?”“Oh, yeah. Of course.” He thrust them at her a little to
The restaurant was lovely, and Mia’s stomach was growling, letting her know she’d probably be able to put away an entire steak, no matter how large the cut she received. But she was also nervous. Beau was acting strange, and it left her unsettled. Was he contemplating telling her he didn’t want to see her anymore, until she quit her job?They spoke about nothing in particular while looking at the menus. Even after they’d ordered, and their food had arrived, the conversation was nothing like it usually was. Normally, they could find a plethora of topics to talk about, but today… nothing seemed to be of interest to either of them. It wasn’t until they were both done eating and the table was cleared that Beau reached for her hand, and she gave it to him.His palms seemed slightly sweaty as he fumbled for words—not at all like the Beau she was used to spending time with. “Listen, Mia, I want to talk to you about what I said last night, and what that might mean for both of us.”She opened
Keeping her hands off of Beau on the way home was difficult, but Mia managed to stay content just holding his hand until they pulled up in front of his mansion. He left the car sitting outside in the circle drive and rushed around to open the door for her. It seemed as if he was doing his best to stay calm, but he was clearly in just as much a hurry as she was.Beau led her upstairs, but not to his bedroom. Instead, he took her further down the hall and paused outside of another bedroom door. Mia raised an eyebrow as he placed his hand on the doorknob and turned to look at her.“I didn’t try to create a space like his. But I thought it might be best if this place was separate from my bedroom.”Mia nodded in understanding, noting he didn’t seem capable of saying Sam’s name at the moment. Keeping this place of exploration separate from where they made love, where he held her in his arms, where he’d first said he loved her, made sense to her. Slowly, Beau opened the door.The room was il
Beau felt himself growing hard as he watched Mia standing there in her lacy bra and silk panties, her bottom lip quivering slightly with anticipation. He could understand a little better now why his brother enjoyed this sort of thing so much. Even though he liked looking into Mia’s eyes when he made love to her, seeing her there with the blindfold on created an air of mystery and suspense about the entire situation.She was just standing there, and he realized it was because he hadn’t told her what else to do. It was an adjustment, having to be so short and gruff, but when he barked at her, “Take off your bra,” he saw a tingle of pleasure wiggle its way through her body.Mia reached back and unhooked her bra, slowly sliding it down her arms, revealing her perfect breasts. She tossed the item aside, her breathing staggered. He watched as her perfectly peaked nipples shifted with each shallow breath.He’d watched enough videos to know there was no such thing as a gentle touch in this so
Mia lay on her back, staring up at the ceiling above Beau’s bed in the master bedroom, where they’d both gone to collapse after the session in the new room. Even a couple of hours after they’d finished, her body was still tingly, and from time to time, a head to toe shudder went down her spine as her muscles spasmed from sheer pleasure.She hadn’t thought Beau could do that to her, not the same way that his brother could. He was asleep, and once again, she found herself slightly jealous at how quickly he could turn his mind off and give into exhaustion. She glanced to her left to see a satisfied smile illuminated by a thin strip of moonlight as he dozed, likely thinking of how good it had felt when he’d taken her from behind.Mia shifted, pulling the blankets up over her shoulder. This had given her a lot more to think about than she ever would’ve realized. It hadn’t been exactly the same as when Sam took her, but it was thrilling and had sent her over the edge time and again.The big
The restaurant was a nice Italian place Mia had never visited before. When she arrived, the maître D showed her to the table where Emily was sitting next to a woman with long brunette hair. Emily hopped up to hug her, and Mia sat down across from the two of them. “This is Shaylee,” Emily said, sitting back down.Shaylee had a wine glass in one hand that she lowered from her mouth as Mia said, “It’s nice to meet you.”Without putting the glass down, Shaylee gave her what could only be described as a nervous grin. “Yeah. You, too.” She glanced around the restaurant, her eyes darting back and forth from one side of the room to the other, though she hardly turned her head. Then, she took another drink of wine and brushed her long, straight hair over her shoulder before she began to spin the glass back and forth on the white tablecloth without ever removing her hand.She wore a red dress with inch wide straps on either side of the deep V that revealed the inside of her breasts and cut most
Beau met her at the door. Standing there in jeans and a white button-down shirt, halfway unbuttoned, his hair slightly messy, no shoes on, he looked sexy as hell. “I could’ve paid for the driver,” he said, as she made her way up the steps.Mia grinned at him, watching him watch her, his eyes traveling the length of her and then back again, taking in the dress, before settling on her eyes. “I got it.” The cab pulled through the circle drive, headed back out to the gate as Beau’s arms came around her, everything else that had happened that night momentarily forgotten as his mouth came crashing down on hers.It didn’t take Mia long to remember that she wanted to talk to him, though. She managed to wrench herself away from him, coming up for air. “Beau….”“Right. I’m sorry. Come in.” He kept his hand on the small of her back as he led her inside to a sitting room off of the foyer. “Can I get you anything?”“I’m fine. Thanks.” Mia settled down on a plush white sofa, not even sure where to