Chapter 21 （B） – Asher
Twenty-One (B)
PRESENT DAY
ASHER
Katie moaned my name as she came apart for the fourth time today.
Panting, she rolled to the side of my mattress, and I stared into her eyes.
“You’re beautiful.” I brushed hair off her forehead. “So fucking beautiful...”
“Thank you.” Her breaths were ragged. “You too.”
I laughed, waiting for her to recover.
“Are we done trying to break up Chris and Michelle?” she asked, her voice soft.
“I’m done focusing on anything that’s not me and you for the rest of my time here.”
“Minus the wedding day, right?”
I blinked, and she laughed.
“Well, I can’t ghost my team once week three starts…even though they’ve kinda done that to me for some reason.”
“They’re just trying to enjoy a vacation,” I said. “They hardly get any of those while working under you.”
“How do you know?”
“Kelsey’s research.”
She narrowed her eyes at me, but then she suddenly burst into the loudest laughter I’d ever heard from her lips.
“Okay, that’s fair,” she said. “You want to tell me how you got into the opposite of what I do? Like what exactly spurred this career?”
“We can talk all about that later—much later.” I kissed her, pulling her back on top of me. “Long after I’m through with you this week…”
“What about the wedding activities?”
“You actually want to go to those?”
“Not unless you wanted to.”
I laughed, kissing her neck. “Then you already know the answer to that…”