Once back, I called Phil's office so I could let them know what was going on. There was a part of me that thought Noah was spending so much time there to avoid me. Well, he wouldn't have to bother because I wasn't going to let myself get ensnared by him again.
I told Phil what was going on and he assured me that he would get Noah back safely, so I wasn't going to worry about it.
I set my phone down next to Marcus' card and went to rummage around in the minibar. I'd make myself a drink and then I would retire to my room, so I wouldn't have to look at or talk to Noah when he got back.
I took the drink into my bedroom, and decided that maybe a long soak in the tub would ease away my tension and put me back on an even keel. I wasn't the type of woman to be affected by a man, so it was really annoying the way Noah kept coming back to my brain. It was one more thing to put on the Noah Negative List.
I filled the tub putting in some of the bubble bath that the hotel offered. I undressed and climbed in, sinking down into the bubbles. I was able to enjoy it for about ten minutes but then the quiet and the stillness started to irritate me. I remembered that I wasn't really a woman prone to long baths or idleness. I was a doer.
I reached to the side of the tub to grab my phone thinking I could run through my email to see if there was anything important that I needed to address. Then I realized I left my phone back in the main area of the suite. "Dammit."
I reminded myself that the goal of this bath was to relax and wash away Noah from my mind, if not from my life. I closed my eyes and tried to think of serene things, but of course that was nearly impossible.
Eventually, I had no choice but to give up. I got out of the tub and wrapped myself in a towel. I padded back out to the bedroom and went through my suitcase trying to figure out if I should just go ahead and put pajamas on or get dressed again. It was a little too early for bedtime, but it wasn't like I was going anywhere.
I’d just put out a pair of panties when my phone started ringing in the other room. It was Margaret's ringtone so it wasn't one that I could ignore. Clutching the towel at my breast, I rushed out into the living area and picked up the phone.
I poked the answer button. "Hello?"
The line was dead. I hurriedly called Margaret back. "Margaret, I missed your call."
"I was just checking to see if you'd gotten that email I sent you earlier today?" she asked me.
"I did, and I've been working on it.
"And everything's going alright there?" she asked.
I decided not to tell her about the hotel lockdown because I really didn't know what was going on and I didn’t want her to worry needlessly. "Everything is fine here."
"Is Noah there?"
"No, but he's on his way back from working with Phil. Do you want me to have him call you when he gets back?" Maybe I could just leave him a note instead of having to talk to him.
"No, that's all right. Just be sure to keep me updated on what's going on there."
"You know I will, Margaret."
I hung up the phone and looked out the window at the unrest below. I didn’t much like Noah, but I did hope he was able to get back here safely.
My head felt a bit foggy and I began to rethink the wisdom of drinking so much this evening. It wasn't very professional of me since I was here on a business trip. And here I was, standing in the living area in my towel, again. God if Noah walked in and scolded me about being unprofessional again, I don’t know what I’d do. I needed to get myself together.
I was turning to go back to my room to get dressed when the door to the suite opened and Noah strode in. He stopped short when he saw me, his eyes taking a long glide from my head down to my toes and back up again. When his gaze reached mine, there was a feral fire gleaming in them.
It was the same the first time he caught me in a towel, but apparently he didn’t like what he saw and he’d chewed me out. This time however, he didn’t appear to be angry, as his gaze took another tour of my body.
One part of me was incensed that he would look at me like he wanted to rip that towel off and lick every inch of my body. The other part of me wished that he would.
"I'm glad you made it back because it looks like there's a lot of unrest downstairs." I nodded toward the window where I could see all the people gathering and shouting.
For a minute, I thought he was going to ignore me, like he often did, and go to his room. At least he wasn’t yelling at me, I thought.
Instead, he walked over to the window and looked out.
"I know all about it. I just had to weave my way through it." He looked down at the table where my phone had been set and saw Marcus’s business card.
"Did you see him?" he asked gruffly, picking up the card and holding it in front of me like I was a child getting in trouble.
My hackles went up because Noah had no right to talk to me like that. "So what if I did?”
His gaze took another thorough inventory of my body that made me shiver. When his gaze returned to mine, his eyes were dark and fierce. "Did you bring him back here? Did you just wash him off your body?"
I was shocked by the venom in his voice. Noah and I rarely ever spoke together without there being some sort of snark, but this felt different. It was even worse than when he’d called me unprofessional.
"No. Not that it's any of your business." I cocked my hip, putting my hands on my waist, praying that the towel wouldn’t come undone. "If I didn't know any better, Noah, I’d think you were jealous," I said, trying to get us back to our usual banter.
He stepped closer to me and ran a finger along my collarbone making my insides shutter and my pussy come to life.
"What if I am?" he asked, throwing me off my game.
I swallowed hard working to find my voice. "I don't believe you. You’ve made it perfectly clear that you have no interest in all this." I said motioning with my hand over my body.
His hand snaked around my back and he pulled me flush against him. Even through the thick plush towel, I could feel that he was hard as a rock and I gasped.
"Once again, Andi, you're wrong."
Noah always liked to have the last word, and this time he ensured it by fusing his lips to mine. My world whirled away, and though I knew I was going to be so angry at myself tomorrow, I was helpless to resist him. I gripped the towel and yanked, giving him full access to me.
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