Who's the Boss Now (Managing the Bosses 3)

He captured her hand and moved it to his lips, kissing her palm softly. "Good. Mark’ll be there, so promise you'll be the softness between us."

"I'll do my best." She touched his face gingerly before slipping out of his grasp and eating her dinner. The meal was exquisite, each bite better than the last.

The cleaned everything up and moved to the couch, snuggling up and watching an old black and white movie until late into the night. Alex loved the damn things, though she could do without ever having to see another one; for him... she would do just about anything.

She turned as the credits rolled and snuggled down against his chest, wrapping her arms around him tightly.

"Why don't we do this every night?" he asked, brushing his lips on her forehead. "It feels so right. So good."

"Because you're busy, and, like you said," she said as she yawned, "until we decide we're headed into the next phase of our relationship, we're really just dating on and off."

He touched her chin, forcing her to look up. "Then let's start talking about what the next phase looks like. I want you in my arms at night."

"Me too." She scooted up and pressed her lips to his, starting the fire that would lead to a long night of moaning his name.

Chapter 6

Alex wasn't in the bed beside her when she woke, but the smell of his soap lingered in the air. Jamie rolled onto her back and tugged the covers up to her nose, breathing deeply and groaning. The man could be a pain in the butt, but he was a god in bed and smelled like heaven itself.

She laid there a moment more before getting up and checking her phone. There was a text from Gina that Nicholas, one of their investors who had vied for Jamie’s attention and then effed that up royally, had called and was stopping by at nine to talk with Jamie.

"Nine?" She glanced at the clock and let out a yelp. She had fifty minutes to get ready and get to the office. There was no way. It took that long to get into work.

She texted Gina back as she tried to get her dress back on. It would have to be nine-thirty. Gina seemed more than willing to keep the handsome investor busy. Jamie couldn't help but roll her eyes at the saucy Italian woman. She was too much for her own good.

After slipping her feet into her sandals, she half ran- half jogged back to her place and worked as fast as possible to get a pair of black slacks and grey button-down on. Her breasts were a little big for the shirt, but she could suck in each time someone came in. She was used to doing it for most of her life anyway.

Her stomach growled angrily as she climbed into her car and sped off toward the office, but she ignored it. Nicholas. The man had confused her with some of the stuff he had pulled over the last few months, but something told her that they were headed toward better days. It was hard fending off a love interest, and a handsome wealthy one, when no one could know about her and Alex actually being together.

Nicholas seemed to know, but perhaps that was because of her not correcting him when he saw her and Alex together in a restaurant not too long ago. The fact that he was interested in her was charming, but he was a good ten years older, if not more. Secondly, whether anyone really knew it or not - she was taken. Plus, wasn’t it bad business to date your competitor’s staff? Invest

or or partner or whatever?

Her phone rang, pulling her from her internal meanderings. Christine.

"Ugh," Jamie grumbled before hitting the speaker button. "This is Jamie."

"Hey. It's me. Do you have a minute?" Her sister's voice was chipper, with an edge of entitlement to it.

"I'm driving to work. I can talk while I'm o—"

Christine cut her off. "Right. So I need to talk to you about something. It's extremely personal. You're the only one in the car, right?"

"Mom already called me. I know about her and Dad." Jamie turned onto the main freeway as traffic came to a dead stop. Excellent. Nothing like being late for one of the largest investors in the company.

"It's not about Mom and Dad. That's old news." Her sister made a sound like she was sucking something out of her teeth. "I need your advice."

Jamie cringed at the nasty sound coming from the phone. "On what?"

"On my sex life." There was an odd pause, and Jamie sure as hell wasn't filling it. "I can tell that caught you a little by surprise."

"Just a bit."

"So Stephen and I are doing good, but he's been complaining a lot about our sexy time."

"Sexy time?" Jamie rolled her eyes and prayed for the earth to split open and suck her into its center to be burned alive. Was she really about to talk to her sister about 'sexy time' with her ex? Was it not enough that Stephen was now married to her sister? She wasn't at all interested in the bastard any more, but it did happen to leave things quite awkward between her and all of them.

"Yep. So he was telling me the other day that you happen to be the best lay of his life." She huffed. "I was a little surprised. Most girls with a little extra in the middle won't get naked to save their life. I'm actually proud of you."