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He pushed my legs up and back, until I was practically bent in half, giving him even deeper access into my pussy, until it felt as though he was impaling me on his length. It was all too much and yet so perfect at the same time; he somehow knew exactly what I needed and gave it to me beautifully.
I screamed out his name as I climaxed, my whole body jerking as my brain got trapped in an endless loop of pleasure, pleasure, pleasure. I might even have blacked out for a second, because when I came back to awareness, Adam was pulling out of me, lowering my legs back to the bed, collapsing at my side.
I groaned and reached for him, barely cognizant of where I was. I curled into his warm side, still trying vaguely to piece together how we had ended up here again.
Right, dinner. A dinner where I had meant to ask him, more as a friend than anything else, what he would do about the Ian situation. I didn’t regret that things had ended up here, but now that I was thinking about Ian again, I couldn’t seem to stop thinking about the casino business.
I didn’t want to spoil the moment. I wanted to lay here and appreciate Adam’s warm, bare skin as it was pressed against mine. To appreciate the way that I could hear his heartbeat beneath my cheek. To appreciate the way he lazily swirled his fingers across my lower back.
But instead, I kept thinking about how frustrating that afternoon had been. I could feel myself getting tenser and tenser.
“Adam?” I asked suddenly, as I lay there pressed against his chest, his arms wrapped loosely around me.
“Hmm?” he hummed in response, sounding almost as though he had been half-asleep there in my bed.
“If something was wrong with one of your siblings that they kind of deserved, would you still help them out?” I asked. Maybe not the best way to word things, but I didn’t know what else to say.
“I don’t have any siblings,” Adam said.
“Well, imagine that you did,” I said impatiently. “If you had a sibling and they had done something that they should have known not to do and created a whole mess for themselves, would you leave them to deal with the consequences or would you try to help them out?”
Adam shifted against me. For a moment, I thought that he might ask something about Ian. I hadn’t exactly been subtle in my inquiry. But then, Adam just shrugged. “Family comes first. Always. Of course I would help my sibling.”
He said it as though it was just that simple. And even though I knew that it wasn’t, I also knew that Adam was right. Ian might deserve the consequences of his actions. He should never have made all those changes and spent all that money. And I was still a little mad at the way that he had tried to interfere with the resort. But at the end of the day, he was my brother, and I couldn’t turn my back on him and leave him to his fate. I had to help him.
Now, I just had to figure out how.
CHAPTER 40
ADAM
I knew that I couldn’t avoid Bailey for another day. She had realized that I was avoiding her before; of course she had, she was smart enough to figure it out, and it wasn’t like the resort was that big. And besides, I knew that she and I had to talk. Better that we do it here, while we were at work, rather than in private.
Put the two of us in private and things seemed to keep happening between us. It was like we were magnets, both just unbelievably drawn to one another.
I hadn’t meant to let last night go where it had ended up going. I just wanted to cheer Bailey up, because I could tell that something had happened during the afternoon to put her in a sour mood. I had meant to stop her when she first kissed me. But I just couldn’t hold myself back. And the sex had been just as good as before. Maybe even better.
But it couldn’t happen again. I couldn’t let her start thinking that she was getting attached to me, because she and I just couldn’t be together. I had to make sure that she knew that. We needed to have a talk about things.
I was still trying to figure out how to broach the subject with her, though. For now, I figured if I stuck to the dirtiest tasks on my list for the day, she wouldn’t come looking for me. So here I was, in the dusty room that housed the resort’s water heaters, plugging away at a little drip that I’d noticed a few days prior. I was up to my elbows in grease when Ian walked in.
His look said it all; of course I could never be good enough for his sister, looking like this. But he didn’t mention Bailey at first. Instead, he said, “You don’t have to worry about those.”
“Uh, it’s kind of my job,” I said, unable to keep the confusion from my voice. “There’s a drip; I’m the maintenance person. Unless you’ve hired someone else to look at this?” I didn’t mean to say that last, and especially not in such a snide tone of voice, but I just couldn’t help it.
I had been puzzling all morning about what Bailey had said the night before about a sibling that was in trouble. I had been half asleep when she had said it, my brain scattered in the wake of some serious bliss, but thinking back now, I recalled every puzzling word. Was Ian in some kind of trouble? It had to be something back in Vegas; that would explain his extended trip here.
But I couldn’t imagine what kind of trouble he could have gotten himself into. Maybe drinking and partying, or something like that? But there were plenty of CEOs who were like that, who barely did any of the work for themselves. That wasn’t necessarily trouble, that was just bad business. And anyway, I didn’t know how Bailey could possibly help him out with that.
I was starting to wonder just what the hell he was doing here in Park City, though, and how long he would be staying. My job was difficult enough without having to deal with his interference. I had enough stress without worrying that he was going to replace me as soon as he had a chance to.
Like now, apparently.
Ian narrowed his eyes at me. “Watch your tone,” he snapped. “I can get you fired.”
I wanted to say something about how he didn’t own the business and how he couldn’t really fire me, but then I realized that that wasn’t what he had said. He hadn’t told me he would fire me, he told me that he could get me fired.
And I was sure that he could, when it really came down to it. Bailey might be interested in me for the moment, but Ian was her brother, and she would never go against him, even if she thought that he was in the wrong.
