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"Yeah, I know" Ethan is watchful and controlling and ant scale for my tasteshave you worked for hiure you can enlighten me" I smirked into the rearview for his benefit

"Six years now We uys soovernhed and shook his head "I can see why Mr Blackstone keeps a watchful eye over you, Brynne You have quite the iination"

"Yeah, Ethan’s told me that one too," I said dryly

As annoyed as I ith Ethan’s presumptions--which ell beyond out of line--I couldn’t really take it out on Neil He seereat taste inhis job Whatever that was in regards to h the garage entrance Before I kneas inside Ethan’s gorgeous hoain, just this time, without Ethan

Neil had me put his number into"How close is close? Am I private here? You can’t watch ns of subterfuge "Do not even think about lying to me, Neil I will be out that door so fast Ethan will feel the wind ruffle his hair all the way from here to wherever the hell he is at the moment"

Neil actually winced "In here you are totally private There are no cameras in the apartment, but out in the hall there are So if you were to leave, I will see you I’m in another flat across the way Not far Mr Blackstone really just wants you to ged it "Call , Brynne"

The door latch clicked and one

Well this eird Alone in Ethan’s ho and a scraain

First things first, I went to the fridge, took out a chilled water bottle and drained half of it The inside of Ethan’s refrigerator ell stocked with plenty of fresh things to ith so no problem on the dinner I explored his coffeeVery nice indeed I set a pot to brewing and checked out his sub zero freezer Ethan’s housekeeper appeared organized to the point of labeled and dated frozen meals in nice plastic containers for easy identification I passed on those I wasn’t really hungry anyway after the massive Chinese lunch he’d fed me at his office

I moved on to the bedroom and was instantly hit with remembrances of the last time I was in this room I closed my eyes and breathed in the scent of Ethan He was everywhere even when he wasn’t I stepped into his bathrooeous, but that irl who did not have a proper bathtub in her flat I knehat I was going to do first

An hour later my skin was pink from the heat and soft from the bubbles I’d dressed in my Jimi Hendrix t-shirt and a pair of Ethan’s silk boxers that were very swishy on anized s and slathered myself in primrose scented lotion

I wandered back to the coffeeinto the other rooy s The view took ined it was just as spectacular in the daytime

I found what I believed to be his office and turned the handle The room behind the door was indeed an office Flanked by a massive oak desk, the opposite wall held a panel of TV h-tech equipht ht and colors and bubbles over the rippling water I caant coral forlass and fluttered an array of