“You’re still in Arizona?” Lila, Dev’s assistant, sounded more surprised than upset. “I don’t remember you staying in one place for more than a week in the last year.”
“Anderson Rescue is down a vet.” That wasn’t the reason he was still here. The reason was the woman he could see through the window of her office working long past when her staff had headed home.
“Lots of places are down vets. Or app developers or investors.” Lila clicked her tongue, and he could hear the unspoken question. Who is she?
Dev had no plans to answer. “I called to get you to push my schedule for a few more weeks.”
“Does that mean two or six, Dev?”
He didn’t know. “I just need to be here.” Charlie needed him, but she didn’t push him for things. In a world where he’d started paying his family’s bills at thirteen, where women dated him for his bank account, a woman who wanted him for himself was priceless.
He wasn’t ready to move on. Not yet.
Lila sighed. He knew she wanted to say something but was choosing to keep the words to herself. “I’ll clear the next six months.”
“That’s too long.”
“We’ll see.” Lila hung up.
He could call her back, but the idea of six months…that wasn’t long enough, either.
“You look lost.” Charlie wrapped her arms around his waist, her sweet scent bringing an instant smile to his face.
He was stunned she’d sneaked up on him; he really was lost in his own world. “That was my assistant. Checking in on my schedule.”
Her body tensed, and not in the way he wanted. “Oh, I bet she was wondering why you were still here.”
“She was.” His fingers skimmed her back, waiting for her to relax. “Charlie…”
“When are you leaving?” Her eyes found him in the darkness and her smile was tight.
She wouldn’t ask him to stay. She wasn’t trying to hold him—but for the first time in his life, that was what he wanted.
What he craved.
“She cleared my schedule for the next six months.”
Silence echoed between them before she squeezed him so tightly. “You’ll stay for six months?”
Ask me to stay longer.
“Yep.” Dev kissed her nose, then pulled back. “Unless you want to kick me out sooner.”
“Absolutely not.” Charlie pressed her lips to his. Her body was magic against him. Her tongue danced with his like they’d spent lifetimes doing exactly what the other wanted. What the other needed.
Twin flames finally reunited.
That type of fanciful nonsense was the reason he’d refused to design dating apps. Humans were fickle creatures, but with Charlie…with Charlie, the words didn’t sound like too much.
“We’re creating quite the show out here.” He breathed the words against her neck, his fingers aching to drag across her bare skin.
“Then maybe you should take me to bed, Dev.”
She didn’t need to ask twice.
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