Something about the fact she’d brought that packet up while we were talking about millions of dollars, and people’s lives pulled a laugh from deep under all the stress of this situation.
“Yes, Morina. You need to read the packet.”
She sighed. “Maybe keep this movie on in case she wakes up while I start that?”
She stood and stretched her long legs and toned stomach. The movement went straight to my dick. It remembered how smooth that skin was, how smooth every part of her was.
When she pursed her lips at my staring, I smirked. “Can’t blame me,piccola ragazza. You’re still the woman I slept with just a few weeks ago.”
“You said no more of that, daddy.” There was her goading.
I hummed low and her blue eyes flared.
She stomped away, walking around the tent we’d made from Egyptian cotton sheets draped over the couch and barstools. I watched her ass the whole way.
We were going to have to figure out a way for us not to take the path of least resistance and end up sleeping together again. It would complicate an already complicated situation.
She returned with the files and plopped down next to me, leaning against the couch while Ivy slept.
“I’m going to read it out loud in hopes I can focus.” She cleared her throat. “Sometimes I have a hard time keeping my attention on things like this.”
I shrugged at her omission, not caring at all that she thought this was boring. “It’s a lot of information.”
She wrinkled her nose. “I’m not that good with focusing sometimes.”
I shrugged again as she blushed in embarrassment. I didn’t know what for. “Everyone has their strengths. Can’t hold this one against you since I don’t particularly enjoy combing through data either.”
She beamed at me and then got to reading. When she’d read about two pages into the oil company’s daily processes, her eyes started to droop.
“Did you write this?” she grumbled.
“No.” I straightened. “I compiled some of it and Cade pulled some from the internet. We had a few people work on drawing up the documents.”
“Do I really need to know all of this? I find it hard to believe my grandma did.”
“She didn’t. That’s the point. If we want to clean this company up, we need to know everything. You want your town running in a way that it can stand the test of time, right?”
“Of course I do, Bastian.” She set the file down and got up in a huff before filling a cup of water. “I just don’t think I can provide any good insight. Tell me what you want to change and why.”
“You’ll just take my word for it?” That wasn’t smart business practice.
“Oh my God, can you wipe that look off your face?” She poured the whole cup of water into the plants. I winced. That wouldn't help them thrive at all.
I took time to cover Ivy up on the floor before going to meet Morina by the kitchen island. “You can’t water the plants in anger like that.”
“Huh?” She glared up at me. “I’m not angry.”
“You’re frustrated. And you just dumped a whole cup in one spot. How’s the orchid and its roots way over here going to get anything?”
She rolled her eyes, but then she watched as I got more water and trickled it in, circling the plant. “You said before that you don’t nurture plants. Was that a lie? Maybeyoushould water the plants.”
“I can do that.”
“If you’re here, that is.”
I chuckled. “Fair comment, Morina. You get one more. I’m sorry for not being around.”
“One more? Then what?”