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Stay the Night Outside Influences
BlakeGiving me a playful salute, Aston leaned to the window and looked up at the McAllen Group corporate office building when I stopped at the red light right outside the parking garage. “I’ve dreamed of working here one day, and I’ve always wanted to come see it.”“I’m sorry you’re finally here, but under these circumstances. I wish I could give you a tour and end it with showing you your own office.” I had no doubt that it would come to that, not because Aston was with me, but because she was extraordinarily talented at her job. If anyone was going to be promoted from a branch to the headquarters, it would be Aston.Again, not because she was my girl. She was driven and capable, ambitious but grounded. With or without me, she was always going to achieve whatever she set her sights on. If that was the McAllen Group Headquarters, that was where she would have ended up.Aston sighed. “I wish that too, but maybe another day. For today, let’s get this business with your brother over wit
Stay the Night New York City
ASTON“Wow,” I said, drawing an extra breath as I stepped off the plane and onto New York soil for the first time in my life. “Breathing even feels different here.”Blake laughed, slinging my bag over his shoulder and waving off the attendant who wanted to take it from him. “It’s the smog.”Swatting his shoulder, I giggled and gave him a look. “It is not. It’s the fact that this is New York. I mean, think about it, New York, Blake. People come here from all over the world, hoping to make their dreams come true.”“Says the girl from California,” he said, teasing lightly. Placing his hand at the small of my back, he made me feel all girly and protected as he guided me to the waiting town car. I could take care of myself and I definitely could’ve made my own way to the gleaming black vehicle, but I liked being treated this way by him. It made me feel cherished.As we slid onto the soft leather of the back seats, he gave me a pointed look. “People from all over the world stream to Califor
Stay the Night Three Little Words
Aston“We won’t be waiting at the bar. I need to speak with Dustin immediately. We’ll show ourselves to his office. Don’t bother letting him know we’re on our way back there, either.”The receptionist paled. “He’s not here, sir. I haven’t seen him for the past few days. He—he’s been in important meetings.”“Important meetings?” Blake arched a dark eyebrow. “Sure. Please have our bags taken up to the suite and leave the key when it’s ready. We’ll be back.”Without another word or waiting to see if she would get someone to attend to our bags, he turned and gave me a second to catch up before striding back to the revolving door. When we were outside, he took my hand. “Dustin isn’t at work because Danny’s in town. I fucking knew it.”“Knew what?” I frowned, feeling my eyebrows pushing together.“They’re out partying, spending the money Dustin’s been stealing from the company.”I almost tripped over my own feet. “He’s been stealing from the company?”Blake nodded with a grim smile. “Yeah.
Stay the Night Joyride Over
BLAKEStraightening my tie, I watched in the reflection of the full length mirror as Aston sat down cross-legged on our unmade bed. She was still in her pajamas, her hair in a messy ponytail on top of her head. “You are the most beautiful woman in the world, have I told you that today?”She flushed, laughing before grabbing a pillow with the indentation of my head still on it and chucking it at me. She missed, but it didn’t seem to bother her. “Shut up. I’m so far from beautiful right now I’m in a different zip code. But no, you haven’t told me yet today. So, thank you. You’re not so bad yourself, by the way.”Done getting dressed, I walked over to her and pushed her shoulder gently down on the mattress. It dipped where I put my knee on it as I leaned over her and kissed the tip of her nose. “You could never be a different zip code than beautiful. It follows you around everywhere you go.”“Beauty is my stalker?” She tried to keep a straight face, but then burst out in a fit of giggles
Stay the Night Fired
BlakeDustin opened his mouth to object, but I didn’t give him the chance. “As it is, you’ve been allowed to occupy this office for much longer than you should’ve been.”“Bla—” Danny tried interrupting, but he shut up at the look I shot him.When I saw him stand down, for the moment, anyway, I turned my attention back to Dustin. “You can resign, or you can be fired. That offer stands for the next five seconds. What’s it going to be?”“I’m not going anywhere until my boss,” Dustin’s chin jutted out and he pointed at Danny, “tells me to leave. I don’t recognize your authority to make me do a single damn thing, big guy.”Danny crossed his arms obstinately. “He’s not going anywhere.”Staring me down, I knew Danny was putting on a show for Dustin’s sake. I wished he wouldn’t act this way, but he was so fucking deep into this idiotic mess Dustin had created that I doubted he could see reality anymore. In his mind, he and Dustin were right and entirely justified in their plans and actions, r
Stay the Night Winner, Winner
ASTONAlone for the first time all week, I didn’t really know what to do with myself. It was so strange how quickly I’d gotten used to having Blake around. To be fair, I was hardly ever alone at work, either.The silence in the room seemed deafeningly loud, especially since I could see the busy streets below when I looked out the window. I spent some time doing just that—people watching from my perch on the windowsill in the suite.When I was done with that, I ran a nice bath and soaked until my skin wrinkled while I read an e-book I’d purchased on my phone. I’d read that you shouldn’t make the bath too hot when you were pregnant, so the water cooled down fast. I kept having to add warm water.When I got annoyed with doing that and was fearful I’d resemble a prune if I stayed in the water much longer, I slipped into one of the complimentary white robes in the cupboard.Settling on the sofa with a bottle of water, I put my feet up and crossed my ankles as I flipped through the channels
Stay the Night Pregnancy Pain
AstonThe champagne was going to have to wait a couple of months, but the chocolates sounded good. “I can’t wait to get home. Thank you so much for all you’re doing. I know you never wanted that job and now you’re stuck with it.”“It’s only until you get back. I don’t mind doing it for as long as it takes until you’re home. Again, don’t you dare worry about it. You know, I’m actually enjoying it a lot more than I thought I would.”“That’s good news.” As we talked and she told me all about what was going on there, I realized why she had sounded different to me before. She was different.She was still the same girl, but the bubbly exuberance was gone because she was taking her job as the manager of the hotel so seriously. There was a more professional clip to her voice. She spoke more clearly and with purpose, instead of just saying whatever popped into her head.All things considered, I was really happy she seemed to have taken to the job so well. It was comforting to know I would be a
Stay the Night Drunken Interruption
BLAKEAston was the perfect cure for my terrible mood when I was finally done for the day. After Danny and Dustin left, I had to meet with the key staff members of the New York branch to make plans for their immediate future.I could hardly leave them without a manager after theirs left under a cloud of suspicion. I quickly learned that many of the employees suspected he was up to something, but didn’t know what. It seemed he’d treated them all like shit and I was relatively sure that none of them were in on the theft with him.Nothing we found in his records indicated he was filtering money to anyone else in the branch, and my instincts told me the others were clean, so I focused on the future instead of interrogating the rest of them. We would be keeping a close eye on the branch. If Dustin was in cahoots with someone, I would find out soon enough.Without giving them too much detail, I told the staff Dustin had been fired, and I appointed Grace, his longtime assistant, as the inter
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