STAY THE NIGHT (The Phillips Family Book 1) by Vicki Keener Page B

Will you like it if I talk dirty to you? ”
        “ Let's talk about the weather.  It's warm today, but snow is called for in the middle of the week. ”
        “ That's a boring subject, Cray.  I never listen to weather reports.  When I get up in the morning, I look outside and decide how to dress for the day.  I can't change it so why listen to what's coming. ”
        “ The temperature is important to dress right.  How do you judge that? ”
        “ The first thing I do when I get up after I use the bathroom is fire up my laptop.  My opening screen gives me the current temperature and the predicted high for the day. ”
        “ Ah ha, so you do check the weather. ”
        She laughed.  “ Cray, you act like you caught me in a lie of gargantuan proportions, like I'm stealing State secrets or something just as nefarious. ”
        “ Don't be ridiculous.  I didn't overreact, but everyone checks the weather. ”
        “ What do you call AH HA? ”
        “ All right, Angelica, you win. ”
        “ You don't want to fight with me because I won't let you in tonight. ”
        He pulled her in her arms and said, “ That would break my heart. ”   He kissed her and she melted against him.
        “ Cray, if it makes you feel any better, I wish we didn't need to go tonight. ”
        Cray lugged her heavy suitcase and her laptop on the private elevator that took them to his penthouse.  “ Let's drop your luggage in the bedroom and I'll give you a tour.  I want you to make yourself at home and feel at home.  If the d é cor is too masculine for your taste, you're welcome to change it. ”
        “ Why would you let me change things when I'm only staying two weeks and not that long if we aren't compatible? ”
        “ We're compatible, ” Cray said.
        “ Well, yes, in the things we've discovered about each other, but we haven't had sex yet.  What you did to me doesn't count. ”
        “ Call it a sixth sense, Angel.  We're compatible. ”
        “ Are you excited about us together tonight? ” she asked.
        “ If you define excited as being in a semi-permanent aroused state, then yes I'm excited and I'm finding it annoying because it's uncomfortable. ”
        “ So your body is excited, but your brain wants it to end. ”
        He laughed and put his arm around her waist and said, “ Come on, I'll give you the fifty cent tour and then I need to shower and change my clothes for this mandatory reception that the Norwegian I want to bed gave up her citizenship for to become an American, but, hey, it makes sense to me. ”
        She laughed and wrapped her arms around his waist and said, “ When you put it that way it doesn't compute does it? ”
        He led her to the living area.  “ You got a glimpse of the great room when we crossed it to the master suite.  If I'm entertaining I use it, otherwise there's a den through here and that's where I spend my time when I'm here which isn't often.  I tend to work late, grab something to eat on my way home and crash for the night.  I'm out of town often, too, since we acquire companies anywhere in the country. ”
        “ I see. ”
        He glanced at her, noted her frown and said, “ Angel while you're here with me I won't keep that kind of schedule.  It's not necessary to work the way I do.  I do it for lack of anything better to do. ”
        “ Are you lonely? ”
        “ I don't consider myself lonely, but maybe I am and that's why I'm so driven. ”
        She walked to the bank of tall windows that overlooked a stunning part of Manhattan.  “ Cray, are you extremely wealthy? ”
        “ Yes, I suppose some would consider me that.  I don't do it for the money, though. ”
        “ Do you do if for the power? ”
        “ No.  Why are you asking? ”
        She crossed her arms and gazed out the window.  “ Cray, men tell me I'm beautiful and they