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I jumped in his lap and said, “Oh my God, this is everything, Roman.” I couldn’t contain my excitement, and I kissed him then he had me pinned to the couch.

Spontaneous couch sex is now my new favorite extracurricular activity. We laid, staring at each other in silence until I said, “I can’t wait for the next project we do together.” We both broke out in laughter.

“I need to take a shower, then we can either eat dinner in, or we can go out and celebrate.”

He had that worried look again. “How about we stay in and celebrate. I’ll cook dinner.”

I guess he’s just worried about Tanner being out there, but it still didn’t seem like him. I loved his cooking so staying in was fine with me.

“I’ll be out in a jiffy.” I kissed him, grabbed my clothes and ran down the hall.

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ROMAN

I made dinner and opened a nice bottle of wine to celebrate our new venture together. I sent a quick email to Amelia and Harrison to let them know we’d need to set up a meeting to talk about this new project. I opened another email from the DA, and I made a morning appointment for Alex and I for Wednesday to do our depositions and get that over with.

“I just got a text from the DA’s office confirming my meeting for Wednesday morning. Did you get one too? I never made an appointment.” Alex showed me the text on her phone.

“Sorry, I had an email from them to get that done and I figured tomorrow wouldn’t work, so I made one for both of us on Wednesday. We can just go together, kill two birds with one stone.”

She raised an eyebrow at me and cocked her head.

“So, you’re controlling my schedule now?” I wasn’t sure which direction this was going.

“Nope, I just know we don’t have much time left to do this and we’ll be together so why not? I should’ve asked you first, I know, but I want to get it over with, so I hope you don’t mind.”

“Yes, you should’ve asked me first, but I understand the urgency and that’ll be fine.” I was glad it didn’t get heated because everything about this case and what’s happened has been a real pain in my ass. She came over and wrapped her arms around me and spoke to my back.

“So, what’s for dinner?” It did not feel like she was talking about food, but we needed to eat, and we could get back to that after dinner. It seems that she really likes sex when she’s in a good mood about doing a project.Noted.

“We’re going to have dinner in the dining room tonight. Would you care to set the table for us? I’m making a filet mignon stir fry with jasmine rice.” We were definitely dressed for eating at the kitchen island and that would’ve been fine with me, but I needed her to redirect her energy to something else before I burn dinner, and we starve to death.

Chapter 22

ALEX

This might be the best thing I’ve done in a long time. Why the hell did I fight this for so long? My memories of last night were the best. I could play them over and over in my head all day. Roman is going to help me with my project, he made a dinner that was amazing, and we did fine dining in our sweats. I thought that was a nice touch but felt really under dressed for that room. I mean, it’s a gorgeous room, butit’s formal.

Dessert was my favorite part. We had dessert in the living room, in the hallway up against the wall, before moving it to the bedroom. I’m not sure we got a whole lot of sleep. We topped it off with dessert for breakfast around two in the morning. Now it’s time for the gym.

Roman rolled over and grumbled, “Good morning. How’d you sleep?”

“Not sure I did, but I’m so excited that I need to work off some of this energy at the gym.”

“We could workout in bed,” he winked.

I laughed and gave him a little shove. “I have a team coming to the office this morning and I don’t want to be late or unprepared, so it’s gym time, shower time then work time.”

“Okay, okay. I’m going to try out your schedule for a few weeks to see how it goes for me.” Is he excited or am I excited? This can’t be only my energy I’m feeling.

As he was heading into the bathroom I asked, “Babe, are you excited about all this?”

He groaned, “Of course I am. I love getting up at 5:00 am after three hours of sleep and going to the gym.”

“Maybe not that part, but us?” I said a little louder since he was in the bathroom now. He came back over to the bed and grabbed my face, planting a kiss on my lips.

“This is the best thing that’s ever happened to me, so yes.” I smiled and there was my answer, but I really needed to get this energy out of my body, and I knew that at some point I was going to crash from this high without sleep. I had training tonight too.

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