When yet another curveball puts Andy and Lex's relationship into serious jeopardy, the stakes become higher than they've ever been, forcing the couple to fight not only for their love but also for their lives.
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Although the laptop remained impossible to find, I found myself focusing on the little things. My life was in shambles, I scrubbed the toilet of the man who wanted me dead all day, and there wasn't an end in sight.
But today was a good day, and I was excited to come home.
Today was the second big date of our anniversary season. Exactly a year ago, I'd sold my app to Kelex and celebrated it at a fine restaurant with the company's owners. But more importantly, it marked our very first time kissing, the first time both of us had realized that the insane attraction we felt for each other was mutual.
As a celebration, I'd woken Lex up with a kiss just as steamy and lustful as the first one we'd shared back then. For endless minutes, we'd made out in the early hours of the morning, rolling in the fine sheets and devouring one another.
But before things could get too far, I'd pulled away and had left him there, high and dry, to start getting ready. The anniversary concerned the first kiss, after all. Not first sex.
Since Becker had officially seen me, and because we weren't sure if it had triggered something in him or not, we were being overly cautious. No more shortcuts taking the SUV right after work. No, instead, I took the bus every day, with one or two bodyguards in disguise, and got off in the Bronx at a specific stop we'd picked together. I then walked to the building where we rented a place under the name of Perdita Ramirez, came out the back, and walked to a dead-end where the SUV was waiting for me.
I hated all of it, since it now took nearly two hours to get back to the suite after work, but it was the best thing we'd found to ensure my safety and my cover.
There was something positively giddy in my walk as I made my way to the suite's door. I couldn't wait to get back to Lex and see what he'd planned for our 'second' anniversary. Given the way I'd left him this morning, I expected some stellar, out-of-this world retribution slex. If I was lucky, I might even get some spanking out of it.
As soon as I entered the suite, I sought Lex, eager to see him. I'd just been on the phone with him for over half an hour during the drive back to the hotel, but I still craved his presence.
To my surprise, he wasn't in the office we'd set up, nor in the common rooms. No, I found him brushing his teeth in the bathroom of our master bedroom, looking all dashing in a dark blue button-up shirt, with the sleeves rolled up on his forearms, and my favorite pair of jeans he owned, which molded his amazing butt to perfection.
Hot damn, what a snack... One I was impatient to devour.
"Baby, you look amazing," I appreciatively told him, eating him up from head to toe.
He gave me a mischievous glance in the mirror before bending to spit out the foam in his mouth. "Thank you, I tried my best."
Once he was done rinsing his mouth and passing a towel over his lower face, he came to me for a quick minty kiss. "You have half an hour to shower and get dressed too," he declared.
