Adonis in Athens - Page 30

“Not your fault.” She nestled against him.

“Come. Let’s go to bed.” He got to his feet and crawled onto the bed. He held out his hand and after a moment she took it, allowing him to pull her close. “In the morning we’ll think of something. I promise.”

“You really want me to come back?” she whispered in the darkness as they started to doze off.

“Koukla mou. I don’t want you to leave.”

Apollo was sound asleep when something bounced on the bed, startling him awake. He sat up with a start, staring at Paige in shock as she bounced on her knees, her eyes shining.

“I can stay! I can stay!” She gripped his arm. “Did you hear me?!”

“The whole neighborhood probably heard you,” he murmured, pulling her down and into the curve of his arm. “How about you tell me what’s going on by whispering softly so I can get my heart rate back to normal.”

“Sig-nomi!” She giggled and wiggled until she was resting her chin on his chest so she could look at him. “So last night, after I talked to my boss, I was upset and I emailed my friend Becca. She’s the head of media relations for the team, but since that’s another department, and she’s not my boss, we’ve gotten friendly. I told her what was happening and asked her what she thought I should do.” She took a breath. “Well, I guess she went in and told Steve, my boss, what she thought of him. She sent me an email a couple hours later telling me to stay another 10 days! She said she was giving me permission and that she’d handle the deal with Tom’s company personally!” She finally stopped talking and looked into his eyes. “I guess she went to our GM and got Steve into trouble—hey! Are you listening? Aren’t you happy?”

He took her hand and slowly brought it to his crotch, letting it rest on his erection. “Very, very happy.”

Two hours later, after another round of passionate lovemaking and an equally erotic shower together, they were sitting on his balcony drinking espresso and nibbling some pastries he’d bought at a bakery down the street. Her feet were propped up on the rail as she stared out at the water, a smile on her face.

“Is that smile from good sex, good coffee or the sea breeze?” he asked, watching her.

“All three?” she laughed, her hair flowing out behind her as the wind picked up.

“You’re a ray of sunshine in my life,” he said, leaning over to run his lips across hers.

“It’s not causing sunburn, is it?” she asked in amusement.

“Not yet.”

Grinning over at him, she couldn’t help the happiness that filled her. She had 12 more days with him, and she couldn’t express how grateful she was to Becca. She would definitely bring her back a nice gift. In the meantime, she had to remember to call the airlines to change her return flight. Her phone buzzed, indicating she had a text, and she frowned down at it. She was glad Apollo had Wi-Fi at his house but she’d hoped she wouldn’t get notifications from work.

Opening the text program she saw several posts from Raegan and groaned.

“What is it?” Apollo asked. “Is it work?”

She shook her head. “It’s Raegan. I guess Tom’s been calling her…”

Apollo got up and disappeared into the house, coming back a moment later with a cordless phone. “Call her,” he said. “I know it’s going to bother you until you find out what’s going on.”

“Are you sure?” She met his gaze worriedly.

“I told you—it’s a flat fee. Call her.” He kissed her lightly. “I’m going to get dressed.”

“Thank you.” She watched him go and then dialed the number to her apartment.

Raegan answered on the first ring. “Oh my God, what’s going on?!”

“So much,” Paige sighed.

“Are you really at Apollo’s house?” Raegan had been shocked when she’d gotten a text from Paige last night telling her some of the news about Apollo.

“I really am. I’ll text you a picture of the view from his balcony in a minute,” she said, grabbing her cell phone as she balanced the cordless house phone on her shoulder. “But tell me what Tom said.”

“He called here and left, like, a thousand messages in the last two days,” Raegan grumbled. “And since I obviously didn’t call him back, he came to work!”

“He went to the casino?” Paige asked in disbelief. “Seriously? Oh my God, Raegan! He didn’t get you into trouble, did he? I’m going to talk to him!”

“It’s fine, he was very nice, just a little freaked out that you’d gone out of the country by yourself and that you weren’t answering your phone.”