Devastated (Anger Management #1) - R.L. Mathewson Page 0,53

system on full display. So far, they’d gained over two thousand new home security contracts and business contracts, and increased their newsletter subscription list, guaranteed to keep his men busy for months. They’d also managed to attract hackers, ex-cons, and security experts eager to show off their skills and get their hands on the ten-thousand-dollar prize, a prize that he would happily pay to find anyone that could break into one of his systems.

“Seriously?” Ryan asked, looking genuinely surprised.

Nodding, Hunter watched as another person failed Kylie’s challenge.

“She’s bright.”

“Yes, she is,” Hunter agreed, already toying with an idea that would make things easier.

“Then why aren’t you in a better mood?”

“I’m in a great fucking mood,” Hunter said dryly.

“I just thought you’d be in a better mood today thanks to that brunette I saw follow you to the elevators last night,” Ryan said, as they watched the next man in line move up and-

Went straight for the keypad.

“Wasn’t interested.”

“You weren’t interested?”

“No,” Hunter said, glancing at the reason why.

“You really weren’t interested?” Ryan repeated back slowly.

“Not one fucking bit,” Hunter said, watching as Kylie noticeably startled when the buzzer went off, signaling another failed attempt.

“You haven’t had sex in eight months,” Ryan said, shooting him a disbelieving look. Since it had actually been a little over two years since he’d had sex, he’d decided to ignore him.

“Fine. Then is there a reason why you’re avoiding Miss Davis?” Ryan asked with a lazy gesture towards the woman in question when it became obvious that he wasn’t going to answer him.

“I’m not avoiding her.”

“You haven’t spoken to her all day and you stuck her in the back corner.”

“I’m trying to figure something out,” Hunter said, as he watched as Tim, who’d been hovering around Kylie all day, sat down next to her at the table where Hunter had ordered Kylie to stay until the convention ended for the night. He was going to have to figure out something else to keep her busy tomorrow since they had five more days of this to get through.

“About what?” Ryan asked, as they watched Kylie smile at something that Tim was saying.

“Things,” Hunter bit out as he watched the little prick shift his chair closer to Kylie.

“These vague answers are really making me feel closer to you,” Ryan said, already sounding bored as he pulled his phone out of his back pocket.

“I have something to figure out,” Hunter said, as he reached over and snatched the phone out of Ryan’s hands.

“And what’s that?” Ryan asked, as Hunter sent the little prick a text message.

“My next step.”

“And you couldn’t do that with the brunette from last night?”

“No,” Hunter said, hitting send before he tossed the phone back to Ryan.

“Next step for what?” Ryan asked absently, as his focus shifted to the beautiful blonde showing cleavage on behalf of Emerald Technology.

For making Kylie his, he decided as he pushed away from the wall and headed towards the woman that terrified him. He’d never been afraid of anything in his life, but God, she fucking wrecked him. She made him want things that he’d never wanted before, never thought he needed in his life, but now…

He craved them.

He wanted more in his life than living out of his suitcase, working his ass off every day only to fall asleep alone every night. He wanted someone to come home to, a fucking life outside his job, and he definitely wanted to kiss Kylie again.

*-*-*-*

It was almost over.

It was almost over.

It was-

“Are you okay?” Tim asked, interrupting the mantra that had been helping her deal with the fact that she was stuck in a large room filled with over two thousand people to find him watching her.

“I’m fine,” Kylie reassured him, managing a warm smile for the man that had tried to save her from being banished back here.

“Can I join you?” Tim asked with a boyish smile as he gestured to the empty chair next to her that she’d been contemplating using on the off chance that she felt the need to curl up into the fetal position.

“Sure,” Kylie said, somehow managing a smile as she placed the folder that she’d been working with back on the stack of files that Hunter asked his men to pick up from their office so that she could ride out the rest of the convention doing busywork.

With a murmured, “Thank you,” Tim sat down next to her while she slowly exhaled as she tried to ignore the sounds of loud murmurs, laughter, cheers, and groans

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