Crowning His Unlikely Princess

‘No.’ Her voice was muffled against his chest. ‘He was repaying me for giving him my study notes.’

Logan reared back to look at her. ‘You bartered sex for study notes?’

‘Not deliberately.’ Even in the low light he caught the scarlet tinge to her cheeks. ‘I thought he liked me.’

‘Idiot.’

‘Well, thanks.’ She made to push away from him but he hauled her back.

‘Not you. Him. He clearly had no idea what he was missing out on.’

‘He did know because we—’

‘He didn’t. He obviously had no idea how to arouse you.’ Logan rolled onto his back and brought her over the top of him. She looked down at him in surprise, her palms flat against his chest, her hair a curtain framing her lovely face. ‘Widen your legs.’

‘Logan—’

‘Do it,’ he whispered, settling her thighs on either side of his hips so that she could feel exactly how much she turned him on.

‘Oh!’

‘Yes.’

Reaching up Logan dragged her mouth down to his, plastering her upper body to his chest. ‘Let me love you again. You’re so beautiful, mi amor.’

‘Logan...’ Her token resistance was lost as she gripped his face in her hands, her body supple and pliant as he showed her just how much he wanted her.

Logan woke from an almost catatonic state after a night of unbelievable sex to find himself alone. He took in the mussed bed sheets and the stream of light that arrowed between the partially closed curtains.

The whole incredible night came back to him in a rush, starting with that incredible kiss in the rose garden to the moment he’d surged inside Cassidy’s body that first time. Just thinking about it sent a shaft of arousal through his bloodstream and he strained his ears to hear if she was in the shower.

Silence greeted him and he wondered where she was. On the rare occasion that he spent the whole night with a woman it was usually to wake up with her artfully displayed on the sheets beside him and ready for round two.

He frowned. He couldn’t remember how many times his body had sought Cassidy’s during the night but he did remember how sleepily receptive she had been each time he’d reached for her.

Hell, he’d just spent an incredible night in bed with his EA. The realisation was like a hammer blow to the solar plexus. From the moment he’d found himself attracted to her he’d planned to keep things strictly professional between them.

So much for that.

He’d been undone as soon as she’d appeared in that amazing gown in his drawing room, all his good intentions disappearing like dust in a sandstorm.

He scrubbed a hand over his face. No matter what the cause, there was no getting around the fact that he’d just made his life exponentially more complicated than it already had been.

And he’d slept with an employee. Just as his father used to do.

Leo’s words bounced around inside his head. Something about Logan not being like their father because he didn’t use his position as a power play with women. And his own response. ‘Regardless, the only thing Cassidy and I have between us is a close professional relationship.’

Right. Having just spent much of the night doing the most intimate things a man and a woman could do together, he could no longer lay claim to that.

And even though he hadn’t used his position as her superior to get Cassidy into bed, there was no denying that he’d set aside his principles and slept with an employee.

In fact, he’d even forgotten that she was an employee. Sometime during these last few days his view of her as just his EA had transformed into something different.

He remembered her at the museum. Her warmth with those around her. Her smile. She had not only handled herself impeccably during the event, she’d added to it. He had always forced himself to only notice her professional attributes in the office, but it was clear she was much more than that. She was an accomplished, loyal woman whose commitment to her job, and her family, ran as deeply as his own.

He’d never taken the time to really know her and now he knew her a little too well. Would they be able to get their working relationship back on track? Because that was a priority. The idea of having to find a new EA as good as her didn’t thrill him. But what did thrill him was the thought of seeing her again. Which didn’t help.

Forcing an image of a sexy, pliant Cassidy from his mind, he jumped out of bed and trekked into his bathroom, heading straight for the shower.