Page 77 of Five Mountain Daddies

And all of that keeps pulling me toward her. It’s not just the sex, although that was fucking special. If it were just that, I would get over it. I can get pussy any time I fucking want pussy, even if her cunt is special. No, it’s much more than just sex, and I don’t nowwhy.

I lean toward her. “You’re a decent person, you know that,Amelia?”

“Thanks,” she says softly. “I keep thinking about the mine, you know? About all the guys, and theirfamilies.”

“That’s why you’ll make a good CEO. You actually care about the people you’re responsible for, not just your bottom line.” I reach out and tip her chin toward me, and I’m surprised that she doesn’t resist when I kissher.

She kisses me back, full and deep. I love this taste, have been thinking about it so much, and I honestly didn’t think I’d get another chance. I assumed that first night was a fluke, and although there’s something simmering between us, I didn’t think either of us would take it thisfar.

I don’t know what I’m thinking, getting even more tangled up with her, but I can’t help it. In this moment, I trust her and want her so badly it almost fucking hurts. Kissing her feels so natural, so goddamn good. I didn’t know it could be likethis.

She breaks it off suddenly, turning her head away and blushing. I lean back in my chair, grinning like anidiot.

“That was, uh, unexpected,” she says, looking back atme.

“But you don’t seem to becomplaining.”

“No. Well.” She stands up quickly. “We have a lot of work to do, right?” She walks back around herdesk.

I watch as she sits down, getting herself together. “You’re right. A lot of hardwork.”

“Good.” She picks up a pen and take a deep breath. She slides the pen across the desk and meets my gaze. “Should we get toit?”

I meet her gaze and put my hand on top of hers before taking the pen. “Where should westart?”

She smiles at me and I feel my heart beating fast in my chest, excitement filling every inch of mybody.

9

Amelia

After a few hours, we finally get something that Samuel thinks can work. He has to bring it to his people, of course, and I need to run it by Ingram. But we’re bothconfident.

And we didn’t kiss a second time. I don’t know what I was thinking, letting him kiss me like that. I could have stopped it, but I wanted him so badly that ithurt.

And I lied to him, a little bit at least. He asked me about having a personal stake in this, and I thought I didn’t. But as soon as he kissed me, I realized that I was wrong, so very fuckingwrong.

His baby makes this very, very personal. I’m pregnant with his child, a fact I keep trying to make myself forget, simply because I don’t know how to deal with it just yet. All of this is very, very personal to me, because my child is intrinsically wrapped up init.

I can pretend that I could sell off the company and move away with a smile on my face, but that’s not true. I couldn’t do that to the father of my child. These are my future baby’s people, Samuel and all his friends, the workers of the mine. This baby is half mine and half his, and I can’t let myself forgetthat.

Still, I feel a little hope as I knock on Ingram’s office door at the end of the day. Fortunately he hasn’t left yet, and I step inside, nervous butexcited.

“Amelia,” he says as I approach his desk. He eyes the contract in my hands. “What can I do foryou?”

“I met with Samuel Carter today.” I stop and place the contract down in front of him. “We came up withthis.”

He stares at the paper than back up at me. “You met with the head of the union…alone?”

“Yes,” Isay.

“And you came back with acontract?”

“Yes,” I sayagain.

For a second, there’s a flash of visible anger on his face, but he quickly smothers it. He leans back in his chair and takes a deep breath. “Do you understand what you’ve justdone?”

“Ingram,” I start, but he shakes hishead.

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