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came in and showed me my mistake.” She closed her eyes when he didn’t say anything.
    She saw Thomas leave the room and felt Jared walk up beside her. She turned her back to him and was pissed when he moved into her view again. When she tried to turn again, he stayed her with his hands on her arms. She covered the mouth piece with her hand.
    “ This is so not the time to be fucking with me, Jared,” Willow whispered to him. “Get out of my sight or so—”
    “ You were so close to being finished,” Snyder said with a bit of astonishment in his voice. “Please tell me you can take it up. I think you know how much I dislike color in my eating areas.”
    She did, too. When they had had dinner a few months ago, she’d been amazed at the dining room in his house. The carpet, walls, table, and chairs had been a brilliant white. The flatware and even the plates had been the same non-color. When the food had arrived, she was surprised and pleased to see that it had color—absolutely no taste, but lots of color.
    “ I know. I know. It makes for a clean palate.” She rolled her eyes when Jared grinned. “It will put me behind again…well, not behind, but not the two weeks early I was going for. I can’t tell you how sorry I am for this, Snyder. We’ll have to pull the flooring up and then reset the tile. The counters will have to be moved out again and—
    “ All that? You can’t just, I don’t know, just pull up the color? What color is it anyway? Please tell me it’s not pink.”
    “ No. Not pink. It’s a dark royal blue. Pull up the color, you say? No, I wouldn’t feel comfortable doing that. It would make the room off balanced and the tile wouldn’t be lined up the way we discussed.” She closed her eyes when Jared moved to her face.
    He was listening, she knew, and he was close. And when the hell had he become Jared and not Robert? When she tried to draw away, he wrapped his arm around her waist and held her to him. Not really touching, but close enough. She felt her body respond to his scent and his warmth.
    “ I don’t know, Will. I was looking forward to getting in there early. You know how much we’re crammed into this building.” She didn’t point out that the one they were building was the same size. She could barely think. “And you say it’s in the employee break room and not the executive one, correct?”
    She had to swallow three times before she could answer. And she was positive that both men could hear her heart pounding in her chest. She nearly groaned out loud when Jared…Robert nuzzled her neck and placed an open mouthed kiss over her beating pulse.
    ~o0o~
    “ Answer him, Willow. He is giving you the okay.” Jared’s voice whispered in her ear, bringing his hot breath along the place on her neck where he’d kissed her.
    “ Yes. Yes, the employees’ break room. I can’t tell you again how…please don’t.” The last was a plea to Jared. He had pulled her body flush with his and she could feel his cock hard against her belly.
    “ Leave it, Willow. I think the employees might enjoy that bit of color to get out of this building and into a brand new one. Yes, color in there would be a wonderful idea. Thank you.”
    She didn’t know if she answered Snyder, she wasn’t even sure if she had hung up, but Jared’s mouth over hers was suddenly all she could think about. And then she didn’t think at all.
    ~o0o~
    Her body fit to his. Her mouth was sex and heat and spice all in one. When she dropped the phone on his foot, he cupped her ass and brought her body flush with his. Her soft folds cupped his cock tightly. When her arms came up and encircled his neck, he lifted her higher and her legs wrapped around his hips. Jared was dizzy with need. Taking the two steps to the wall seemed an eternity and when he had her there, he wanted to toss her to the floor and take her on the dusty tile and cardboard boxes.
    Cupping her breast, he felt the pearled tip strain against her bra.