She hung up the phone and dried off. Liz made a slight effort to comb her hair and make herself look more presentable. Her anxiety was still going crazy. Liz felt like it was hard to breathe.
Harrison would be so pissed off if he knew what had happened. He had probably been calling her and trying to reach her and she wasn’t answering. Liz tried to think of a way she could explain away what had happened. What would be a reasonable excuse for her not answering his calls or coming to his hotel room as they had scheduled?
Liz decided she would have to think while she made her way over to his hotel. It was now almost nine o’clock in the morning and Liz was sure Harrison had been worried sick about her.
She loaded herself into a cab and practiced her deep breathing techniques as the cab drove across town to his hotel. Her deep breathing wasn’t helping much though because she still felt like the world was spinning around her.
When she arrived at Harrison’s hotel, Liz got out and felt dizzy instantly. The bellboy grabbed her arm and helped her into the building.
Soon there was a man standing there with a glass of water.
This really was a five-star hotel.
“I’m fine. I’m sorry I just am not feeling well.” Liz tried to get the man to go away, but he just continued to stay there.
“Can I get you some crackers?” The man offered.
Liz thought it might be the best way to get him to go away.
“Sure.”
The man was back within a minute with an assortment of crackers. Liz thanked him and he finally went away. But not far, as he stayed watching her from the other side of the lobby.
Liz got her strength back and headed to the elevators. She didn’t want to waste another minute. She had to get upstairs and see Harrison. Liz knew he was going to be so worried about her.
As she made her way to the tenth floor, she had decided she would just tell Harrison the truth. She had gotten sick from drinking and had lost her purse. He didn’t need to know what bed she had slept in.
She knocked on the door for room 1009.
There was no answer, but she could hear people talking inside the room.
Liz knocked again.
The door opened and there stood Sarah. In her pajamas.
Harrison came up behind her quickly and opened the door further so he could see who was there.
“Liz! I’ve been worried sick. Where have you been?” Harrison said as he moved forward and reached out for Liz.
Liz stepped back as she took in the scene. Why was Harrison’s secretary standing in her pajamas in his room? What was going on here?
Liz couldn’t take it. She felt like she was going to throw up. She took off down the hallway running as fast as she could.
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Chapter 1
Liz really didn’t feel good. Her night of drinking had her feeling really dehydrated. Running away from Harrison’s room after seeing him and Sarah standing in there, really didn’t help either.
In the lobby, Liz had to sit down. She was sweating and feeling dizzy. The bellboy, who had brought her water and crackers before, rushed in with a fresh supply for Liz to consume. This time Liz didn’t even try to turn him away.
She sat there trying to gather herself back together so she could go back to her hotel. The look of surprise on Harrison’s face still burned in Liz’s mind.
Seeing Sarah and Harrison in their pajamas in his hotel room was just too much for Liz. If Harrison had really been worried about her, he could have come to her hotel and looked for her. Inviting his six-foot blonde goddess of an assistant to his room did not seem like the best way to search for someone you were worried about.
“Liz, nothing was going on. We were trying to find you.” Harrison said from behind Liz.
Liz just sat there. She did not turn around to address this version of his story. Partially because she didn’t want to turn or move at all because of the nausea and partially because she wasn’t sure she even believed him.
“Liz, where were you? I called. I went to your hotel. I even called the police.” Harrison came around and sat next to Liz on the couch.
“You came to my hotel?”
Liz suddenly felt extremely guilty. She had been in the hotel, just in Ricardo’s room and not her own. She had been in Ricardo’s bed instead of Harrisons. Liz wanted to tell Harrison, but she didn’t want to stop being mad at him yet. Waking up next to Ricardo after a night of drinking way too much was the whole reason Harrison had been unable to find Liz. But Liz had just been so shocked when Sarah was standing in Harrison’s room.
No woman ever wants to see her man standing next to a woman like Liz saw Sarah in a hotel room. Even if it was totally legitimate. It was just shocking.
“I lost my phone while out with friends from work. Drank too much and fell asleep.”
“Are you alright? You don’t look too good.” Harrison said showing an instant level of compassion that Liz suddenly wished she had remembered before yelling and running away from him earlier.
“Just a massive hangover and dehydrated. I’ll be fine.”
“You know I love you. Sarah really is just my assistant. I called her early this morning to get me the numbers for the local police. She brought them straight to my room so I could call them since you had not shown up last night.”
Liz started to feel worse and worse. The guilt filling her up from the inside all the way to her pounding head. Maybe she was projecting her guilt about being in bed with Ricardo onto Harrison and his assistant. She really did not see anything that was sordid or sexy between the two of them. Actually Sarah’s pajamas were full-length pants and a t-shirt.
“I’m sorry I worried you.” Liz finally succumbed to defeat.
“I’m just happy you are alright. I seriously don’t know what I would do without you.”
Harrison leaned in to kiss Liz.
“I think we should hug it out instead of kissing, I’ve got horrible breath right now.” Liz joked as she wrapped her arms around Harrison.
Then in one quick motion he stood up with Liz’s arms still wrapped around his neck. He swung his hands around her and lifted her up off the ground. Soon he had her fully in his arms and was carrying her off to the elevator.
The bellboy quickly ran after them and hit the button to open the elevator. Inside, the elevator attendant knew exactly the floor they had come from and got them right back up to the tenth floor.
“This really is a five-star hotel, isn’t it?” Liz laughed as Harrison carried her down the hallway toward his room.
He set Liz down for a brief moment to unlock the door and then swept her off her feet again as he brought her into his room.
Harrison’s room was much more elegant than Liz’s hotel room. He had a huge king sized bed with silk sheets and a down comforter. There was a couch and sitting area and a television on the wall that looked like it was at least six feet wide. The floor to ceiling windows were pointing out over the city and offered an amazing view that instantly hypnotized Liz. She walked over and stood staring at Sydney as the sun shown down on the city.
Liz felt Harrison step up behind her. His body closer and closer until his hands reached out and pulled Liz toward him. He leaned down and kissed the back of her neck. Then reached down and pulled her shirt up over her head and threw it on the ground.
Piece by piece Harrison rid Liz of her clothing. She was too tired to argue and too enthralled with the view to bother turning around.
Liz stood there naked, looking out over the city.
Harrison stepped back and watched Liz. She was obviously distracted and enjoying the view. He took off his own clothes and stood next to Liz.
“Do you think anyone down there will notice us standing here naked?” Harrison said with a smile.
“Let them.”
Liz reached out and grabbed Harrison’s hand. They continued
to enjoy the floor to ceiling view of the city until Liz finally decided she was tired and wanted to lie in Harrison’s fabulous bed.
They climbing in and their body’s slid into the silk sheets. If Liz had felt better, she surely would have loved to have sex on these sheets with Harrison. But she felt ill from her night of partying and guilty about what had happened the night before with Ricardo. So instead of making love, Liz pressed her body tightly into Harrison’s arms and fell asleep.
There was no sex. There was no love making. But Liz felt closer to Harrison than she had in a long time. Now she just hoped she hadn’t ruined everything by sleeping with Ricardo. She couldn’t wait to talk to him when she got back to work.
Chapter 2
Harrison felt perfectly content to have spent the entire day naked in bed with Liz. He was happy she was safe and really needed to catch up on his sleep. Harrison had been awake the entire night before as he worried about Liz.
The next day Liz went with Harrison to the airport. He had decided it would be best to return home and Liz was alright with that. She had already missed a whole day of work because of Harrison and she had the realization that she would never be able to concentrate if he were there.
As they walked into the terminal Liz saw Sarah standing there waiting for them. She didn’t like Sarah and she wanted to ask Harrison to get rid of her, but Liz thought she might be overreacting.
“Oh my gosh, I’m so glad you are alright. We were so worried.” Sarah said as she gave Liz a big hug.
Liz didn’t know why she disliked this woman so much. She really had been very nice to her, but there was just something wrong with having a hot young blonde secretary and she didn’t like Harrison’s choice to keep her around at all.
“Yes, I lost my phone and had gotten sick. Thank you for your concern.” Liz tried her best not to sound like a jealous girlfriend.
Sarah handed Harrison a packed of his travel things and then quickly made her exit to the nearest Starbucks.
Liz and Harrison sat down and enjoyed some breakfast at a small shop near the security entrance to the boarding areas. They were both exhausted and much of the time they just sat their enjoying each other’s company without much talking.
“When do you think you will be home?” Harrison asked as he flipped through his phone and sent a few text messages.
“We will be done on Friday the tenth. So just a couple more weeks and I’ll be back home.”
“Perfect. I can’t wait to get our lives back to normal.”
“Me too,” Liz really wanted things to get back to the way they had been before she took this job in Australia.
Liz sat and drank her coffee as she looked at Harrison working. He was so handsome with his dark brown hair and blue eyes. At forty years old, Liz couldn’t believe how young he always looked. She really hoped that when she got to be forty she would look young. But at twenty-three years old, she had plenty of time to age gracefully.
“Mr. Wellington please come to the ticket counter.” A voice said over the intercom system.
Harrison jumped up from the table and made his way over to the ticket counter for the airline.
Liz sat there looking at Harrison’s unlocked phone. He had just left it sitting there in the middle of a text conversation he had been having.
She couldn’t resist. Liz reached over and pulled the phone closer to her. She kept it on the table and turned it around so she could read the conversation he was having. It was with Sarah and the last message read: “Liz HNC” and it was from Sarah to Harrison.
Liz stopped to think for a minute, and then realized what the message was saying. Sarah was saying that Liz had no clue. She quickly scrolled up to see what else the two of them had been talking about.
The previous message was from Harrison: “Do you think Liz knows something is up?”
Liz scrolled up more and more. There were just a bunch of messages from Harrison to Sarah telling her to pick something up at a certain location or send an invoice. Nothing else interesting at all except the last two messages.
Liz turned the phone around and pushed it back to where it was so she wouldn’t get caught by Harrison. Her mind reeled with what they were talking about. What did Liz have no clue about? What would she suspect was going on?
The only thing Liz could think of was they were trying to hide an affair. But the thing that was weird was that none of their text messages before that had anything to do with an affair. They weren’t even flirty at all. In fact, every single message in the long string were business related. So what did they mean by the last two messages?
Liz decided not to bring it up. She thought it would probably be best to leave things alone for right now. Especially considering she hadn’t talked to Ricardo about the night she found herself waking up in his bed.
When Harrison returned, Liz ignored the information she had just acquired. For now, she would just have to ignore the texts she had read until she had more information.
They finished eating their breakfast and Liz walked Harrison to the security area.
“I’m so proud of you for all the work you are doing here. You will surely be the best marketing woman at your company soon.” Harrison smiled and wrapped his arm around Liz.
Although he really hated that she had taken a job so far away from home, Harrison loved Liz because of her hard work and determination. He had fallen in love with her because of this and he certainly wasn’t going to make her feel bad for continuing to be determined.
“Thanks,” Liz said as she pulled him down toward her.
“Oh, I can kiss you today?” Harrison joked.
“Yep, freshly brushed teeth today,” Liz smiled and let her lips touch his.
Right in front of the security line Liz and Harrison continued to kiss. Liz let her lips linger on his until she heard the nearby security guard continuously clearing his throat.
“Well I guess I should let you go home,” she said.
“If you must. But let’s actually Skype this time. No matter how busy you are. I don’t care if you just set the phone up and I watch you work. I just want to see you.” Harrison said as he reached down and grabbed his bags.
“That’s a deal.”
Liz got on her tip toes and gave Harrison one last kiss as he made his way through the security area and down the hallway to his plane.
Liz turned to leave the airport and suddenly was able to focus on the one thing she needed to do right away. She needed to find Ricardo and talk to him about what happened between them the other night. Liz needed to know if they had slept together since she had woken up in his bed next to him.
The answer to that question would determine if Liz could stay committed to Harrison or if she would have to tell him the truth about what happened that night he was looking for her. If the truth was that Liz had sex with Ricardo she knew Harrison would not want to stay with her.
Chapter 3
“Nice of you to show up for work,” Ricardo said with his usual chipper smile.
Liz felt the weird tension between the two of them and she knew things would have to be talked about before they could continue on with their work.
“Can we talk?”
“We didn’t have sex. I know that’s got to be what you’re going to ask.”
Instantly Liz felt the weight of the world come off of her shoulders. A huge sense of relief went through her. The worry that she might have slept with Ricardo had kept Liz from sleeping with Harrison in his hotel room. Liz couldn’t think of anything else until she knew the truth about that night.
“Oh my god. Yes, that’s exactly what I was worried about.”
“Let me just say this. If we had slept together…You’d remember it.” Ricardo said with a wink and a smile.
Liz couldn’t help but laugh. Ricardo was a really nice guy and in any other circumstance she would have totally dated him. But right now she was really happy with Harrison and was excited to have him in her life. She also hoped he wasn’t having
an affair with his secretary. Because that thought still loomed since she saw that weird text message.
“Well, should we get back to work on this project. Maybe even kick a little butt?” Liz said as she got situated in her desk.
“Work? I’ve been working. Who’s the one here who has been out sick for the last two days? Hmmm.”
“Yeah, sorry about that. I guess I can’t hold my liquor.”
“So how did things go with your man? Was he pissed at you?” Ricardo said as he sipped on his coffee.
Ricardo didn’t know Harrison well at all, but he didn’t imagine any man would be very pleased with finding out his girlfriend had passed out in another man’s bed.
“When I got to his hotel and his secretary answered his hotel room door in her pajamas.”
Liz said as she started to organize her work for the day.
“Was he banging her?”
“I don’t think so. I had told him I would be there the night before. He says they were getting numbers to call the police and she was helping him.”
“Seems kind of shady to me.”
Liz thought so too, but she decided not to continue on with the conversation. Liz really wanted to just forget about everything and get back to work. They still had so much to do and so little time to do it in.
“Let’s go over that new mock up. I’d like to see about changing some of the colors.” Liz said as she tried to change the subject.
With that comment, the two went right back into work mode. They spent the rest of the day working solid until it was dark out. Liz was fascinated by how hard Ricardo worked; she had never worked with someone who liked long hours like she did. It was actually really nice to have someone just as dedicated to getting a job done well.
Liz got a call from Bella and finally paused from her work.
“How’s it going girl? Do you miss me yet?” Bella said with her high pitch chipper voice.
“It’s been busy. But I’m good. How are you? How is your summer?” Liz did miss Bella and she felt that empty spot in her heart instantly.
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