Chapter 1

 

I could not help but find myself getting all excited as I looked down to find Luke Walker's name appear on my phone screen. But before I picked up my mobile I took a deep breath trying to remain calm and composed, it was imperative that I at least tried to sound professional as his current employee and not just some ditzy girl with a massive crush on her boss.

'Hello,' I cleared my throat before speaking in my most neutral voice.

'Hello Kate, are you still in the office?' Came his calm, deep baritone textured voice that immediately sent delightful shivers across my skin. I was glad he could not see me all flustered as I began to reflect on the type of man that I was speaking to on the other end of the line. A man whom I knew was the embodiment of sexy with his grey striking eyes, chiselled features and tall toned muscled body, a man that I had been unable to resist in the past, but who I was now determined to show that I was both trustworthy and great at my job.

'Yes still at the office working late, it's just me and the cleaners.'

'Honey why don't you finish off for the night and come over to my apartment, you have been at the office late each day for two weeks already, surely leaving now won't hurt your enquiries, you can continue with your investigations tomorrow,' he spoke persuasively.

'I can't, something tells me that tonight will be important like you said I have been waiting all this week and last, it is only a matter of time now, I am sure I am going to find some new evidence. Anyway didn't we agree not to mix business with pleasure?' I teased.

'Actually I think you'll find that you agreed to that rule, I am just the long-suffering boyfriend,' he joked back, 'I wish I had never now asked for your help with my little problem, or I wouldn't be finding myself horny each night thinking of your hot body and sweet pussy, and with my only release being a cold shower, how cliché is that?'

'Luke!' I played shocked by his filthy words even as my heart skipped a beat with his pronouncement of me being his girlfriend. Up until now I had not had the courage to ask him how he viewed our complicated association, but I was relieved and delighted to know he held me in high regard despite our past history. 'Please Luke it is hard for me too,' it really was, I could feel my panties practically dripping for him, as I remembered our mind blowing sex session previously not a month ago, but I knew I had to be strong and resist the urge to consummate our relations again, well at least for a while.

'Let me finish this job first, I promised I would show you that I could be trustworthy, not to mention that I owe it to you. After I am successful in closing the case we can talk about....well us I guess,' I tried to reason with him. I was very determined to make up for all the wrongs I had done unwittingly against him in the past.

To cut a long story short I had been hired by Luke's now ex-wife Donna Walker to trap and expose him as a love rat so she could fleece him at the divorce courts, she had hoped to clear away a good amount of Luke's billionaire fortune that he had accumulated from his global technology businesses. Luckily for me I had not completed Donna's job, having gotten to know and developed feelings for Luke over the time of me mock dating him as part of my investigations for Donna, I found I could not bring myself to take part in his ruination. Which was just as well when I found out the real truth that it had been in fact Donna who had been the cheater in their short marriage, embarking on a long-term affair with her personal trainer, the incriminating pictures enclosed in a sealed envelope that she had wanted to me to go on to retrieve from Luke's home proved that fact. But I would have never known all of this had not Luke shone light on her devious plan at the last minute when he confronted Donna and myself in a coffee shop, having been tipped off of possible foul play by his own private sources. A plan that Donna had not gotten away with but had made me feel guilty of being a part of, and not opening up and warning Luke about, even as we became close and got involved intimately with each other, I have kept quiet all out of fear. But now I was ready to make it up to him to show him that I could be trusted and counted upon.

'Babe you don't need to prove anything to me, the past is the past, you were given biased information about me, all is forgiven if that is what you need to hear so we can move on,' he almost sounded as if he was sulking to my ears, most likely he was still frustrated that we could not be together as he wished, but I did not give in to him I knew I had to stand my ground regardless.