Chapter 1

 

'Dean, please you have to get up at once!' I had no choice but to shake the naked man before me from his sleep. Remaining calm and holding back my blushes I touched his firm shoulder, as I got a good view of his bronzed, muscled, lean body. A part of me was grateful that his bed covers still remained just over his waist so I could not see everything! Whilst the other part of me was wicked and mischievous and itched to get a sneak peak of what lay underneath, and all I had to do was pull down the covers. Then I would know what all the fuss was about with the ladies who fought for his attention. I mean could he really be as big as I had heard one of the women he had taken to bed giggling through his room door just before I had come to give Dean a message? 'Calm down Louise, what are you even thinking, are you out of your mind!' I scolded myself in my head in anger. 'This is Dean York, your boss, the billionaire womaniser and occasional jerk, a fact that you'll do well to remember, instead of indulging yourself in fantasies that will just get your knickers all wet!' My stern words to myself seemed to do the trick as I felt myself becoming less flustered.

'What the hell! Louise, why are you disturbing me so early in the morning, grumbling yet again? What does a guy have to do to enjoy the simple things in life like sleep?' Dean roared out, leaving me in stunned silence especially when he gripped my wrist automatically on awakening, sitting up on the king size bed and looking at me directly with his green, striking eyes. I felt a shiver of delight ripple through me as my body reacted to his touch.

I found myself for some moments not being able to remove my gaze away from his perfect chiselled features. 'Louise stop acting like some infatuated teenager and drooling over him so shamelessly,' I snapped at myself inside my head to break his mental and physical hold over me.

'Get off me!' I found my voice as I yelled out. I knew that I had now taken Dean by surprise as he released my wrist instantly and then removed his focus from my lips where they had been resting, and making me feel so unnerved.

'Sorry...I didn't mean to hold on to you like that....its just that...what are you doing in my room?' Any apology he was about to have made was retracted as his jerk side made an appearance.

'I wanted to avoid coming in here like this trust me, but I had no choice, I wanted to tell you that you only have an hour to get showered and changed, take a quick coffee, before boarding your private jet so you will be ready for your meeting!'

'The meeting can wait,' I heard him sulk as he ruffled his dark blonde hair and presented a pained look on his face. A part of me was secretly glad he was feeling so awful, he deserved it! I had often told him he needed to slow down his hectic lifestyle, it was not like he was getting any younger at the age of thirty-five, so partying excessively each night would do him no good!

'I thought this was a meeting that you had been planning for over a year and that you had finally negotiated the right terms to take over the Strand chain of hotels that would add to your business empire?' I quizzed him calmly going for a softer approach; I knew that nagging him any further would only bring continued resistance from him. My words seemed to do the trick as he cursed under his breath and started to get up from his bed.

A turned around quickly in a panic and started to walk away to give him his privacy.

'Can you get me a coffee please?' I heard his deep baritone voice just before I left through the doors.

'Black?'

'Yes the usual, so remember no sugar.'

'Ok, I will have it waiting downstairs once you are showered and changed.'

'Thanks.'

'Oh one quick thing....that lady friend of yours.'

'Friend?!'

'Susie, you remember her don't you? The one you came back with the other day, the tall redhead?' I had to bite my tongue in annoyance, had he fucked so many women by now that he could not keep count, what a man whore!