Chapter 421

• I walk out of the elevator a couple of hours later; Jefferson has dropped me back at Carrero House and is taking most of my bags straight to Jake’s apartment. I’m disappointed to see Rosalie’s desk and Jake’s office are empty, and I check my watch. It’s only midafternoon, so I check my iPad on the desk, pull up the schedule, and see Rosalie has added in a meeting. Jake is meeting with the legal team overseeing the Hunter-Carrero ship merger; things must be moving along with the first hotel cruiser.
• I sigh and make my way back to Rosalie’s desk to collect some letters and make myself busy. All the answer machines are on, the office is deathly quiet, and even the other secretaries on this floor seem to have disappeared. I miss him already, and it makes me smile. I’ve only been gone a couple of hours, and already I’m impatient to see him again, to feel his hands on me and kiss me the way he does. I keep telling myself that it’s only been a week, that I shouldn’t be this dependent on him so soon or even at all. I’m falling too far and too deep, yet something inside me tells me to let go, trust him for once, and go with it. See where this goes.
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