RUSH (Montgomery Men #1) - C.A. Harms Page 0,16
I assured her, and I almost laughed when her lower lip protruded in a pout.
“Sweetheart, I have been married for over six years. My husband spends more time with ESPN than he does with me. I’ve gone through a twelve-pack of batteries in the last month, and they were the long-lasting kind.” I pressed my palm against my mouth, hoping to hide my smile. “Sure, laugh it up, but when you’re done, I need you to call this man and go out with him. After you have a long night of mind-blowing sex, I will need you to come back here tomorrow and tell me everything. And I do mean everything, each yummy detail. I plan to live vicariously through your vagina, and from what I’ve heard that man knows what he is doing around lady bits.”
Movement in my doorway caught my eye, and I looked up and found none other than Mr. Wright standing there with a displeased look on his face. My cheeks heated, and I wasn’t even the one going on and on about my vagina.
“Ms. Dryers,” he said in a displeased tone. Meghan turned around cautiously. “If you’ve completed this very distasteful conversation, I’d like for you to get to work now.”
Bowing her head, she stood from the chair and moved across the room, passing Mr. Wright. Just as she was out of his view, she turned to face me and held her hand up to her ear, mimicking a phone. “Call him,” she mouthed.
And then she proceeded to thrust her hips forward twice before skipping down the hall oh so happily even after being reprimanded for her crude actions.
Mr. Wright only offered me a slight nod as he left my office, pulling the door shut behind him.
I was then left alone with the aroma of fresh flowers and heated thoughts of Ashton.
I had no intentions of calling him, or seeing him. He wasn’t the kind of man I should pursue. From what Meghan had said about his past, the man had heartbreak written all over him.
I’d lived that life once, and I had no desire to repeat those years. Even if the man made my heart race.
ASHTON
“ANY MESSAGES?” I MUMBLED AS I walked past Lex’s desk.
It had been two days since I had flowers delivered to Stockman and Wright. Three days since Ms. Masterson left my building. And three fucking days that I had been unable to get the vision of her sweet ass swaying from side to side as she stormed from my office out of my head.
I couldn’t remember being this frustrated since I was sixteen and was forced to watch Kibby Garrison practice her cheerleading moves in her backyard. I swear she would position herself just so I could see up her shorts. Damn dicktease.
It wasn’t like me to jack off to the image of any woman. Normally I would just grab the nearest willing woman and fuck her senseless. But the only woman I wanted beneath me at this moment was one that still hadn’t called to thank me for the flowers.
I didn’t fucking send flowers to women, but I was desperate to reach out to her. It was that or drive across town and visit her office. The flowers seemed like a less stalkerish choice.
Now I was even more frustrated and thinking I should have gone with option two.
“There are a few,” Lex said as he followed me to my office.
I placed my briefcase on my desk and turned to face him, trying not to appear too eager.
“But I can assure you neither of them are the one you were hoping for.” He grinned from ear to ear. This guy pissed me off sometimes. He was entirely too smug and chipper. But he had been with me from the beginning. He had struggled alongside me as I built my empire, and nothing would ever convince me to let him go. He was a savior, and one of the very few people I can say without a doubt I trusted fully.
Trust is a tricky thing for me. In my business, I rarely found anyone who didn’t want something from me. Most people lied and cheated to get to the top, and I knew plenty of bastards out there that would love to take me down. That was one of the main reasons I chose to be nonexclusive with any female. I refused to be anyone’s meal ticket, and I refused to be vulnerable to anyone looking for access to my life.
“Just