The Alpha King Call Boy – Chapter 106

Fiona

We stayed up late Thursday playing.

I was already sleep deprived from several days of staying up late working, because Friday was the first day of Conrad’s leave. The first day I’d be leading the morning meeting in his place.

r the meeting by the time I returned to the palace Thursda

soaking up his energy was the best thing I could have done with all that tension and anxiety I had thrumming inside me.

e been worn out, too. For once he didn’t wake to my alarm,

outine.

a hitch. It really could not have gone any better.

d started a wildly inappropriate round of applause after I’d

greenness. I had been fearing that my peers in the meeting might begin casting me reproving glances in the halls this week, assuming that my appointment to cover for Conrad was thanks to nepotism.

ad a tendency to ramble sometimes, stretching the meetings late simply if he was feeling talkative.

ow I got to sleep in.

de and energy all the rest of the work day.

nod off in the back seat the entire drive.

me I reached our bedroom, I was practically dragging mysel

g room in pursuit of a comfortable nightgown.

me until I fell asleep.

o wake me up in twenty or thirty minutes.

woke to

se me.

e to figure out what day it was and how long I’d been sleeping.

s naked and asleep be

down for a nap. That

ld me two facts that only confused me further.

calling my cell. That had never happened before.

rday morning.

n staring at the screen for at least half a minute—I was about to miss the call. So I had to pick up before I

t noisily, then answe

”

ander began

w you’re an early riser like me and hoped you might be up.”

do for you, Conrad? Everything alright?”

full week.”

est to plan as far ahead as we can. How are things going? First meeting went alright?”

meeti

oject?” He was talking very fast.

to need me to contribute much to the conversation.

the next two weeks?”

“Yes.”

, need anything—you talk to Alexander.”

Conrad knew that I now knew about Alexander’s role in the company. Hm.

na?”

“Yes?”

blem. Travel safe

aying goodbye.

rd “early.”

is easy strength and the slipperiness of our silk sheets, I practically went flying across the bed. It was impossible not to laugh.

pressed his nose and mouth into my hair, rubbing his face into it.

Another week.”

. Seemed like this had him suddenly a

e to.

I started feeling odd, again. About our still mostly awkward workplace entanglement.

to do, you do it.”

ded heavy.

ore.

, my touch going soft and gentle when I slipped down and below the trail of golden hair on his ab

r a f

e I was drying my hair. She asked if I had any free time to hang out this wee