Chapter 45 Forty-four

• The impact of his words has me opening and closing my mouth, he chuckles and I squeeze my lips. I don’t find it funny and he shouldn’t either. “How?”
• “How they are trying to sabotage me?” he murmurs with lines marring his forehead and I nod. My lips trail a line from his forehead to his nose, I encourage him to continue talking. “I’ve been trying to expand, go into other businesses to create my legacy.”
• The silence of the room is broken by my question, “Isn’t your company and hotel your legacy?” I shift, trying to adjust on his laps, he must have mistaken it for me leaving him because his arms circle my waist and I chuckle. “Your legs must be numb by now.”