The Tycoon's Baby Revelation - Elizabeth Lennox Page 0,42

over again, with a few variations on the original theme, tonight and the following nights?

Josh frowned as he turned on his computer. Something about that statement wasn’t right. What was it? While he scanned the stock prices from the previous night’s transactions in Asia and Europe, seeing the trends and forming plans, another part of his brain went over that thought. He realized almost immediately what didn’t feel right.

He didn’t want just a few more nights with Sloane. He wanted…forever. They’d worked together for years and he’d felt only half alive when she left at the end of each day. But last night, when they’d been working at his place, Josh had realized how much he loved having Sloane in his home. Thinking back even further, he knew that they’d worked at his place many nights over the years for that exact same reason. He loved having Sloane in his house. In his life. Hell, he didn’t want her for a few nights or even a few months. He wanted her for the rest of his life.

Jerking upright at that thought, he looked through the door of his office. Vaguely, he heard the rest of the office stirring to life, the other brokers settling into their desks. But his focus was on Sloane, on the beautiful, delicate profile and the elegant arch of her neck. She’d put all of those damn pins back in her hair, he thought. His kiss of a few moments ago had dislodged her carefully sleek hair but the prim Ms. Abbot was now firmly back in place.

Smiling, his body reacted to the memory of her coming apart in his arms. Her sighs when he touched her in certain places. A lot of places, actually! Sloane might look like the cool, sophisticated businesswoman, but when he touched her, there was nothing cool about her. She was hot and beautiful and sexy and…his body tightened and Josh struggled to banish those memories for the moment. He couldn’t do anything right now, but later, once the workday was over, he would act.

For the first time in his adult life, he wanted to push work issues aside and just…hell, he wanted to haul Sloane out of this damn office draped over his shoulder and make love to her for the next several days. Weeks! He’d thought about her so many times over the past eight years, he had several thousand fantasies to work his way through.

As he watched, Sloane’s phone rang and she efficiently picked it up, answering with her normal professional tone. But last night, she hadn’t sounded professional. At all.

With a smile, he pulled his eyes away and focused on work.

Chapter 15

All day long, there was one issue after another to deal with, so she hadn’t had time to become overly nervous about Josh’s comment about tonight. But now, the staff were slowly wrapping up for the day. Darkness had descended and she knew with every fiber of her being that Josh was going to take her into his arms and…and do those things to her again.

And everything inside of her warned her to get out of the office and find a place to hide. She had reasons. Valid reasons! Josh wasn’t the forever kind of man and she…okay, he’d used protection last night. But…there was that freakish fertility in her family! And Sloane knew now that she’d been in love with Josh for too long! She was going to be hurt when he moved on to someone else, she thought. She’d have to find a new job, a new place to live. She’d have to…!

“Sloane?” his deep voice interrupted her litany.

Slowly, she turned away from her computer, her worried eyes looking into his dark, confident green ones. No, they weren’t confident, she thought. They were heated and hungry! At that moment, Sloane was positive that she could have said no and he would have respected that answer.

Instead, she reacted to the hunger. The need. She reacted because she felt the same aching, desperate need flare to life inside of her.

“Are you ready to go?”

Sloane looked down, trying to hide the need, wishing she could cover it up.

“Stop,” he ordered.

The one word pulled her gaze up to meet his. “Stop what?”

“Stop trying to hide from me, Sloane,” he ordered. Moving towards her, he took her hands and pulled her to her feet. “I need you, Sloane. More than oxygen, I need you. And I’m not afraid to admit it. Can you be honest with me? I suspect