those dreams, I’d woken up wetter than a water park in a rainstorm.
Eventually, that was what came pouring out of me. Bleeding from me onto the page.
A love scene.
One in which my characters were in a bar, flirting before the man took the woman up to his suite in the same hotel.
I wrote it exactly how I would’ve wanted Saturday night to have gone, had things been different. Although I’d given him a bit of shit for it, I had actually heard other things about Dane back in the day.
Apparently, sleeping with him could be quite an intense experience with the size of the pleasure wand he was packing. One girl had legitimately called it that in the locker room one day. A pleasure wand.
I remembered how jealous I’d been of her, and as I wrote my sexy scene, I had no doubt that he’d be able to deliver the orgasms I imagined having with him. After what that girl—and several others—had said of a young Dane, I knew he had to be even better now.
What I didn’t know was how I was supposed to keep things platonic with him if we were going to be working together all year. All I knew was that I had to.
For the sake of my sanity, professionalism, and my brother, I had to stay away from his pleasure wand at all costs. Because the pleasure probably wouldn’t be worth the cost in the end if I didn’t.
Chapter 8
DANE
It was weird knowing that Leah would be coming to work in the same building as I was this morning. I’d picked her up at the airport yesterday, as I’d promised I would, but I hadn’t been able to stay with her like I’d have liked to.
Instead, I’d gone to get her and deposited her safely at the hotel where she’d be staying, and then I’d left her there to race off to my next meeting. It sucked that I hadn’t been able to make sure she was settling in okay, especially since Rick kept blowing up my phone wanting updates on her, but I knew I’d be seeing her later.
She was coming in to set up her office. Jefferson firmly believed in everyone needing their own space in which to work from, and since she’d be with us all year, it made sense that she had somewhere at head office to set up her home base.
I didn’t think she realized it yet, but she was going to be busy. Katie, who was usually one of our floating assistants, had been assigned to her. She already had her schedule for next week and she’d be helping Leah get settled today.
If things went according to plan, I’d be able to get to her hotel in time to pick her up to bring her here a little later. But first, I had to get through an early meeting with Jefferson about kicking off the campaign.
Leah would be hitting the ground running, but she’d have plenty of support while doing it. Although a lot of people didn’t necessarily know why, most of the staff members knew Jefferson was gearing up to scale down.
This campaign and product launch was his swan song before he retired. It was likely to be his last big hurrah, and as such, everyone was working their butts off to make it everything he wanted it to be.
And what he wanted it to be most of all was a success. To his mind, we were already behind even though we’d only just found the face of the line.
If it had been up to him, he’d have kicked off this campaign months ago. On the same day that the product went into the final phase of development.
We’d only been holding back because we wanted to have all our ducks in a row before we made any official announcement. The last duck we’d needed had been the woman who would be at the forefront of it all, and now that we’d found her, things were happening at the speed of light.
It was one of the reasons why I wanted to be there with her this morning before she came in. I planned on taking her to breakfast to prepare her for the storm she was about to walk into.
We’d been messaging back and forth, and I told her things would keep moving as fast as they had been at least for the next few weeks, but I didn’t think she really grasped just how fast they would be