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  1. BOOKS BY LOUISE BAY
  2. ONE
  3. Rosey
  4. TWO
  5. Byron
  6. THREE
  7. Rosey
  8. FOUR
  9. Byron
  10. FIVE
  11. Rosey
  12. SIX
  13. Byron
  14. SEVEN
  15. Rosey
  16. EIGHT
  17. Rosey
  18. NINE
  19. Byron
  20. TEN
  21. Rosey
  22. ELEVEN
  23. Byron
  24. TWELVE
  25. Rosey
  26. THIRTEEN
  27. Byron
  28. FOURTEEN
  29. Rosey
  30. FIFTEEN
  31. Rosey
  32. SIXTEEN
  33. Byron
  34. SEVENTEEN
  35. Rosey
  36. EIGHTEEN
  37. Byron
  38. NINETEEN
  39. Rosey
  40. TWENTY
  41. Rosey
  42. TWENTY-ONE
  43. Byron
  44. TWENTY-TWO
  45. Byron
  46. TWENTY-THREE
  47. Rosey
  48. TWENTY-FOUR
  49. Rosey
  50. TWENTY-FIVE
  51. Byron
  52. TWENTY-SIX
  53. Rosey
  54. TWENTY-SEVEN
  55. Byron
  56. TWENTY-EIGHT
  57. Rosey
  58. TWENTY-NINE
  59. Byron
  60. THIRTY
  61. Rosey
  62. THIRTY-ONE
  63. Rosey
  64. THIRTY-TWO
  65. Byron
  66. THIRTY-THREE
  67. Rosey
  68. THIRTY-FOUR
  69. Rosey
  70. THIRTY-FIVE
  71. Byron
  72. THIRTY-SIX
  73. Rosey
  74. THIRTY-SEVEN
  75. Byron
  76. THIRTY-EIGHT
  77. Byron
  78. EPILOGUE
  79. A month later – New York City
  80. 14 months later - Star Falls
  81. MR. MAYFAIR
  82. Beck
  83. Beck
  84. Stella
  85. BOOKS BY LOUISE BAY

My heart begins to thud. This is starting to feel like a situation where I need to panic. But I don’t want to give it away. “Should we put some food and supplies in there?” I ask.

“I’ve got a box ready to go,” he says, nodding toward a crate by the door I didn’t notice before. “We can just take it with us.”

“And by us, you’re including Athena, right?” I grin and glance over at him, then wish I hadn’t as the room shrinks. I swear I can feel his body heat from here.

“I suppose I am.”

“It’s a bonding experience,” I say, trying to lighten the mood. “You two need to get to know each other if I have to move into staff housing before we find her owner.”

“As long as she keeps her claws to herself.”

He grins at me, his boyish smile back with a vengeance. I wonder if I’d be safer next door with a collapsed roof after all, rather than here, with Byron.

SIXTEEN

Byron

The rain has stopped, but it’s only a temporary reprieve. The next time it starts raining, we know it will be the beginning of the big storm we’ve been preparing for.

I’ve been in near-constant contact with Kathleen. I need to do something to distract me from the fact that Rosey is naked at this very moment, taking a shower. I don’t want to think about how she looks in nothing but water and bubbles. Or how she’d taste, straight out of a shower.

Kathleen texts that most construction work had to be abandoned due to the heavy rain. We’re going to have more damage than I would have liked. We’re going to have to prioritize the staff accommodations and the already furnished chalets. If necessary, we’ll have to delay marketing visits. It just depends on the extent of the damage when all this is over.

I’m going to have to brace myself for the worst-case scenario. I’m impatient to know where we’re going to end up. It’s only when I know what we have to fix that I’ll know how to get us there.

I groan and collapse on the couch, Athena yelping as I catch her tail on the way down. “Sorry, cat,” I say.

“What happens when you move up to the Colorado Club?” Rosey says from the door of the bedroom. “Will you be able to take Athena?”

I glance over at her and wish I hadn’t. Her cheeks are pink from the heat of the shower. The tank top she’s wearing fits snugly over her breasts, and rides a little high so I can see a couple of inches of the golden skin on her stomach.