Black Forge MC: The President's Obsession のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 1 - チャプター 4

I never planned on becoming the woman who sat around waiting for a text from some guy whose last name I didn’t even know. But there I was anyway, standing in my kitchen at one thirty in the morning, lights mostly off, on my third glass of red wine after his first text, which had landed at nine. Four hours and thirty minutes. That was the level of pathetic I had reached. If Brianna ever found out the full scale of my embarrassment over this man she would drag me straight to therapy. My phone buzzed and his name lit up the screen. Cass: Coming up. Two words. That was all it took to let him back into my apartment after seventeen days of radio silence. I should have ignored it and gone back to bed. Client files were stacked all over my desk and those files needed dealing with in the morning. I should have pretended I still had a shred of self respect left after a full year of this bootycall dance. Instead I ran my hands over the silk robe I kept telling myself I hadn’t put on for him.

The next day started out pretty normal, all things considered. I got to the office feeling wiped out after another night of bad sleep. My mind kept going back to Victor’s files. At this point it was becoming my hourly bread. Sloppy paperwork doesn’t necessarily mean fraud. Maybe it was something he overlooked. But how was I supposed to overlook it as an accountant? It’s literally my job to notice such things. Laura was already at the office when I walked in. I handed her a coffee before going into my own office. I sat down at my desk and started working on the pile of files that Laura put there before I arrived. I caught myself thinking about Cass too, wondering how long it would take this time around. A month maybe? Or perhaps this time would be for good. My chest clenched at the possibility. The rest of the day dragged on without anything major happening. I had no meetings and spent the day reviewing invoices and making notes on anything that looked off. My paranoia had me doing