Page 5 of To Have and To Hold

“Yeessss, push offa me!” She whispered out angrily.

“No, not yet, until the coast is clear. Besides, you used to like these arms around you.” She drew in a breath, and he knew she was about to curse and demand to be set free again. He turned his head and could see the guard watching again from the elevator and he turned and captured her protesting lips with his.

She stiffened in his arms and moved her hands up to his hair where she grabbed a fist full and pulled hard enough for the roots to feel like they were separating from his scalp.

In retaliation, he moved his hands from around her waist and down to her plump buttocks, taking both heavy globes into his hands and squeezing hard as he moved her flush against hiships, where his cock was beginning to stir from the feel of her voluptuous body in his arms.

He muttered against her mouth. “Open and respond to me.”

“Leff me boy…”

He frowned because he couldn’t understand what she was saying.

“Here let me say it properly for you to understand me.Not on your fucking life.” She growled out in frustration.

“Fine.” He lifted up and turned his head again and saw the guard was gone and released her immediately. She stumbled back a bit and gave him a look that said if a gun was around, he would be dead now.

“Rasshole.” Colin heard her mutter under her breath in irritation.

He could tell that was definitely a swear word and bit back a laugh. “So where do I put my chair before you show me around?”

“Right here.” She said as she strolled past him. Grabbing the handle of the door, she opened it and, with a big flourish movement of her arm, indicated where he was to go.

Looking at her now, he saw a woman that rather do him bodily harm than marry him and that he couldn’t take the time to woo her. But he had to just get her to agree with his plan; she deserved better than to be conned. He grimaced because what he was about to do was going to get worse for her, but there was no choice in the matter.

He walked up to her and pushed the door closed, facing her now mutinous expression.

“We have to talk, and I know you are not about to like what it is I am about to say.”

Chapter 3

“NO.”

“Coco, you need to listen.” Colin loomed over her, trying to use his body as intimidation; he still had the thick, tall, heavy build of the hockey jock he used to be in high school, but Coco stood her ground.

Her ex from school was very popular with his peers and the women at Ryerson high. She’d thought she was the luckiest woman in the world to be dating Colin Norris and not because he was touted to be an NHL hockey hopeful and heir to the Norris fortune, but because her crush had turned out to like her too. Until he broke her heart without a second thought and no regrets.

Thank God it was the last year of high school and that she was going to leave for university, living in the dorms with Jackie as her parents moved to their new home in Canada as ambassadors from Barbados.

She leaned closer to him, pulling his ear down so that he could hear her better as nothing she said before seemed to get through to him. “I said no, there is no way in hell that I am going to marry you. Now get out of my office and leave me in peace. I’ve had enough of you wasting my time and telling me what I need to do.”

He stood firm, staring at her stubbornly. Her blood rushed to her head. “Get out or I will call security back to escort you out.” She tried not to shout in anger. Her voice was already rough from trying not to scream the walls down in aggravation.She could not believe this was happening. Misfortune was playing dirty in bringing her high school ex back into her life.

Coco pressed two fingers both on each side of her temple and began to rub as a way to distract herself, knowing that her migraine was coming on fast, and it was going to be a doozy. She would have to stay in her office tonight because she would not be able to leave and face the oncoming traffic or the bright lights from outside. She needed to take her medication and go lie down on the pullout couch that she had in her office for just this type of emergency. Her office was also equipped with a shower and a change of clothes, because sometimes she was here late working in her lab or with her small staff coming up with ideas or marketing for her hair and skin product line. She knew she didn’t have long to get rid of him before she was unable to function properly.

“Migraine coming on?”

She glanced up to see concern now in his blue gaze but now the lights were beginning to hurt her eyes, and she lowered them.

“Yes, so can you please go.”

“Coco, I—”

“Please, we can discuss this tomorrow.” She whispered now as a sharp pain hit the front all the way to the back of her skull.

She felt warm hands on her shoulder, then her body being guided to sit on the couch. She closed her eyes now from the intense light in the room.

“Where is your medication?”

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