The Greek's Pregnant Lover
Chapter 6

Chapter 6

She’d been careful not to ask for promises Zephyr might break, or make commitments she wasn’tready for.

But she’d come to realize over the past six weeks—while subsisting on phone calls, texts, instantmessaging and e-mail—that emotions didn’t abide by agreements, verbal or otherwise. That refusing tomake a vow didn’t stop her heart from craving the security that promise implied. Nor did it stop her fromliving like she’d made her own promises.

She’d missed Zephyr more than she’d thought possible and wanted nothing more right now than towrap herself up in him and soak in his essence.

He seemed to want the same thing. He hadn’t stopped touching her since they left the airport. He’d laidhis hand over hers between gear changes in the car and he’d kept his arm around her waist all the wayto the room.

He opened the door with a flourish. “Here we are.”

The suite reflected the minimalist décor from downstairs, but its spaciousness spoke of the ultimate inluxury. “This place is bigger than my apartment.”

“My closet is bigger than your flat,” he said, sounding unimpressed.

She grimaced at the truth of his words, but the curve of her lips morphed into a smile from the heatburning in his brown eyes.

From the feel of his arousal when he’d first hugged and kissed her hello, and the sexual needintensifying his features then and now, she expected to be taken against the door with a minimum offoreplay.

But that didn’t happen. He set her cases aside and then lifted her right into his arms, high against hischest, in a move that made her feel cherished rather than just wanted.

She quickly banished that thought even as her gasp of surprise escaped her. “Going he-man on me?”

“Spoiling you more like.”

“Oh, really? I could get used to this,” she teased.

He didn’t bother with a reply, but didn’t look too fazed at the prospect. So not good for the odd blips ofemotion that had been pestering her lately. But that was one thing she could say about Zephyr Nikos,whether it be in his role as friend, boss or bed partner, the man did not stint on his generosity.

Despite his obvious desire, rather than showing mass amounts of impatience, he laid her gently on thebig bed and seemed determined to reacquaint himself with every facet of her body. He drove her crazywith reticence while pumping her for information on her time away from him.

After he asked yet another question about her experience in the Midwest decorating the interior for anew office building, she laughed. “We spoke every day, Zephyr. I can’t think of anything I didn’t alreadytell you.”

The gorgeous tycoon actually looked like he might be blushing, his dark eyes reflecting chagrin. “I wasjust curious.”

“You know what I do on a job. I’ve done it for Stamos and Nikos Enterprises often enough.”

“Did you like the Midwest better than Seattle?” he asked with what she thought was entirely mistimedcuriosity.

“Are you kidding?”

His expression said clearly he wasn’t.

“I love Seattle. The energy in the city is amazing.” And he was there.

“That’s good to know.”

Suddenly, all his questions started to make sense. “You heard.”

Chapter Two

ZEPHYR tried to look innocent.

“How? Who told you?”

“Does it matter? Information is more lucrative than platinum in my business.”

“Did you seriously think Pearson Property Developments could offer me a better situation than yourcompany already has done?”

“Money isn’t your only consideration, it isn’t even your main one, or you would have accepted my joboffer by now.”

It was true. She would make a lot more money working for him as an employee whose overheads wereabsorbed by the company rather than as a fledgling design business that sucked up the vast majority ofthe not-insubstantial fees charged to her clients.

“So, you thought I might like the Midwest enough to take Pearson’s job offer?” She couldn’t imagine itand disbelief colored her voice.

“They didn’t just offer you a job.”

“No, they also offered a contract for several projects they have in the pipeline over the next two years.”While still leaving her an independent operator, the offer would provide the kind of security most up-and-coming designers dreamed about.

If living in a landlocked state without a single authentic Vietnamese or Thai restaurant was what shewanted. It wasn’t. She was too fond of the diversified and active culture of Seattle.

“I’ve gotten too spoiled to big-city living. The only Thai restaurant I found was run by a man namedArnie who thinks a good curry comes with corn-on-the-cob.”