I stared at the empty office in confusion and glanced at my watch to double-check the time. It was just a few minutes past 6 PM, the time that I always made sure to reach her office by, especially after I completely missed it last week.Usually, every time I came to pick her up, Jane would always wait for me at her office in Benedict's building before our agreed-upon time; something about how I would make too much of a scene if I picked her up from the lobby. But she had never been late before, not even once.Her bags and coat were still here, so I knew that she was probably still somewhere in the building.Maybe one of her meetings was running overtime, or she simply forgot to tell me that she had something scheduled at this time.Nevertheless, I decided to wait inside her office, reasoning that it would be too early to panic about her absence yet and make a scene against her wishes. I plopped down the white bag of pastries and dessert that I picked up for my two sweet tooth darlings

"What's wrong with you today?"Huh? I looked up from the mixing bowl of pancake batter in confusion. "What do you mean, Liam?"He shrugged half-heartedly and replied as he continued dropping chocolate chips into the pancake batter, "Normally, you're always clinging onto Ms. Jane and asking for kisses whenever you think I'm not looking, but you've barely been within a ten feet radius of her all morning."Embarrassment immediately rose inside of me.It was already bad enough that I could barely get close to Jane today without dirty thoughts popping up. The mere sight of her reminds me of how alluring she looked underneath me earlier before I accidentally went too far. How sinfully lovely her moans sounded against my ear. How smooth her bare skin felt under my touch.Even though I just came back from the humiliation of driving back to my apartment in the cold with a boner and spending more than 30 minutes in an icy cold shower in the middle of the winter to get it down, my body still wou

With much compromise, Benedict eventually received his phone back in an undamaged state but at the price of being forced to sit on the far end of the table to be placed "as far away from Ms. Jane as possible," as per Liam's request.Liam and I sat on either side of Jane on the other end of the table. But then my mother insisted on sitting close to her "grandbaby" and plopped down next to Liam before he could even protest, leading to the rest of my family sitting to the right of Liam while Cassy's family made do with the leftover seats next to me.To say the least, the assignments of seats caused much more hassle than it really needed to. But at least everything seemed to calm down once dinner started.Between my mother and her friend, Mellisa, there was no issue with any awkward silences as they quickly filled up the room with their lively chatter, even pulling in Benedict's preppy personality once he stopped sulking and started asking Jane random questions here or there.Not giving m

"Place that box on the third floor. The ones over there should be in the library. But place one in the study." I watched as my bodyguards shuffled about the front of our new home, helping us move our new furniture and items to different rooms. Since it was too dangerous to let any random mover help us with this process in fear of our new address being leaked to the public, I had to ask my entire fleet of bodyguards to come with me out of the city to help with unpacking. It was barely even 9 o'clock in the morning, and I was already getting annoyed from having to instruct all these people, wanting nothing more than to huddle in an isolated space with my angels, away from all these people. Though I managed a ginormous enterprise with hundreds of thousands of employees, I truly disliked being stuck around large crowds, enough so that my small fleet of 20 helpers was already making me feel suffocated. The only thing that was keeping me from fleeing was the sight of Jane and Liam playi

"Achilles, you need to get up. You're going to miss your flight at this rate."I groaned and tightened my arms, burying my head deeper into my plush pillow. "I'm serious, Rafael. You already ignored your last two alarms." I grumbled incoherently, still mostly half asleep as I nuzzled up against my pillow."Achilles!" I begrudgingly cracked an eye open to look up at the owner of the voice. "Love, I'm taking my private plane. They won't leave without me." Her hair was a mess like all other mornings, completely splayed out around her head. But I still found it to be a comforting sight to wake up to every morning, She pouted as I propped my head up on her stomach, my previous personal sleeping pillow, "Still... Joseph said that I shouldn't let you talk your way out of going. He told me that you have a dinner meeting tonight in France that you can't miss." I groaned and buried my face back into her stomach, cursing Joseph on the inside for getting to me through my fiancée. She gentl